The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.

The Last Tempest

In 1898, China was under the reign of Emperor Kuang Hsu of the Ching Dynasty, but the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu), who had retired to the Summer Palace, was the real power behind the throne.Implementing the reform program formulated by Kang Yu-wei (Ling Yun), Tan Szu-tung (Yueh Hua) and other government ministers imbued with Western ideas, the emperor (Ti Lung) institutes a series of new measures, including the abolition of the traditional bureaucratic system, the imperial examination and feudalistic titles.But the emperor finds himself in confrontation with the conservative Empress Dowager, who is egged on by her old followers to take over the reins of state.Meanwhile, the wily, ambitious General Yuan Shih-kai, on whose military support he often counted on, betrays the emperor.When the emperor’s plot to strip the Empress Dowager of power is divulged, the latter detains him in the Ying Tai Palace and disgraces his beloved Concubine Chen (Hsiao Yao). Cherishing eternal love for her, he risks his life to rendezvous with her. Although the Empress Dowager engineers reconciliation between them, he remains estranged from Empress Chin (Ivy Ling Po).With the help of a faithful eunuch, Wang Shang, the emperor succeeds in fleeing from Ying Tai, but many of his close followers and his beloved Mistress Chen are arrested and executed afterwards.The sweet romance between Emperor Kuang Hsu and Concubine Chen is still talked about in China today.