A fictionalised account of the 18th-century Emperor Qianlong’s real-life harem of concubines, the 70-episode series charts the rise and fall of a number of women in the Qing court as they vie ...

A month after the events of Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain, the mysterious man known only as the “Medicine Seller” returns to the imperial harem. While things appear markedly ...

On a tourist journey she's kidnapped by what appears to be a Beduion tribe and sold into the harem of the Sultan. The man that took her captive is not actually a Beduion but an Oxford educated ...

Royal women, including daughters and concubines, were forbidden from marrying outside the family and were confined to the harem, where they were little more than trophies, reminders of dynastic power.

The result has been a flood of what the Church calls “pension concubines.” Laymen prefer such gentle euphemisms as “life companions.” But however tolerant the neighbors, many Catholic ...