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{{trope}}
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Most Western audiences know this period from Asian pop culture sources such as ''[[Wuxia]]'' movies, or Japanese works such as the ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' series of games and the ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms (anime)|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' anime, though most of these are based on much older Chinese novels, folk-stories and other source material.
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Life in '''Imperial China''', according to this view, apparently involved lots of politics and betrayal around the Emperor's solid gold palace, punctuated by battles featuring big hulky brocade-wearing brutes mowing down peasant soldiers by the thousands with their flashy ''musou'' attacks. When you met a fair maiden, either she was [[Waif Fu|skilled enough with martial arts to kick your butt]], or she was [[Shapeshifting Lover|a supernatural creature in disguise]].
▲=== Popular tropes from this time period are ===
* [[Arranged Marriage]]
* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]
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* [[Supernatural Martial Arts]]
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* Most ''[[Wuxia]]'' books, films, TV series etc.
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[The Burning of Red Lotus Temple]]''
* ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''
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* ''55 Days at Peking'', also set during the Qing Dynasty.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[Dream of the Red Chamber]]''
* ''[[Journey to the West]]''
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* ''[[Water Margin]]''
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Much of ''[[Towards the Republic]]''
=== [[Theatre]] ===
* Most Chinese opera
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''Kumo No Yo Ni Kaze No Yo Ni'' (''Like the Clouds, Like the Wind'')
* ''The Tale of the White Serpent'' (白蛇伝)
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* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' and ''[[Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden]]''
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''The Favorite'' by Inoue Yasushi is about Yang Guifei.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* There have been at least two Japanese TV production of [[Journey to the West]] that use a relatively straight fantasy version of the setting. The 1978 version was dubbed by the BBC as [[Monkey]].
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]''
=== [[Film]] ===
* The early parts of Bertolucci's ''[[The Last Emperor]]''.
* ''[[Kung Pow]]: Enter The Fist''.
* ''[[Shanghai Noon]]'' (the early parts).
=== [[Literature]] ===
* The ''[[Judge Dee]]'' novels and short stories, though the first is a translation of a Chinese story.
* Several novels by Pearl Buck, including ''[[The Good Earth]]'' and ''Peony''.
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* ''Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South'' by Lawrence Yep, from ''[[The Royal Diaries]]'' series.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Some parts of the first ''[[Kung Fu]]'' TV series.
=== [[Theatre]] ===
* The stage play and later opera, ''Turandot''.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Jade Empire]]'' is set in the role-playing-game fantasy version.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Mulan]]'', though it's based on a traditional Chinese folk-story.
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