Empresses in the Palace is the classic palace-intrigue drama.
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The character 嬛 here is pronounced huán (a name reading), not qióng. Based on Liu Lianzi's online novel 《后宫·甄嬛传》. A 2013 US edit as Empresses in the Palace reached Netflix.
76-episode Qing-court drama aired 2011-2012, directed by Zheng Xiaolong, starring Sun Li as Zhen Huan. Set in the Yongzheng reign, it follows a naive young woman's rise to empress dowager through palace rivalries. The most-rewatched and most-memed 宫斗剧 in Chinese TV history; lines like '臣妾做不到啊' are quoted daily online.
