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• Farewell My Concubine: I'm a big fan of Kaige Chen's 1998 film, The Emperor and the Assassin (or "Jing ke ci qin wang"), which is an incredible epic about the founding of the Qin dynasty, the first time in history China was united as one country. Archive 2007-07-01
• Moreover, he presented to him three hundred male white slaves and the like number of concubines, in loveliness like moons, and three hundred Abyssinian577 slave-girls, beside five hundred mules laden with treasure and sheep and oxen and buffaloes and bulls and other cattle beyond count; and he commanded all his Wazirs and Emirs and Grandees and Notables and The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• On one hand, there was an exciting variety about Caprice's boudoir behaviour, the merry concubine performing for the fun of it; on t'other, my horsey charmer was wildly passionate and spoony about me - and there was more of her. Watershed
• The 1911 episode a drama between a master and his favorite concubine.
• His wife, or concubine, elicited from him the secret, that his art could ward off any danger except the poison -. ous qualities of broth, made of the flesh of a breme sow. The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces
• Round about were the remains of two 20-year-old women (wives or concubines?), two 40-year-old men, and a dog.
• The Prophet darned his own garments and among his wives and concubines had a trader, a warrior, a leatherworker and an imam. TIME.com: Top Stories
• Adulterers who might once have called their paramours concubines (qie) for lack of a lowlier term can now aspire to precision; an ernai is a kept woman of less-official standing. The Foreign Devil's Dictionary
• At the age of eighteen, he took a concubine or mistress and together they had one child, a son.
• For any official serving the imperial family, respecting the emperor's mother was also a necessity, which lent support from the moral angle to concubines running State affairs.