For fans of Li Han-Hsiang: what to watch, read & play next

Erotic Chinese legends spanning Tang and Ming dynasties blend mysticism and desire in three interconnected tales.

Ming-era pleasure houses and imperial lechery lay bare a world where women's lives are shaped entirely by male power.

A eunuch's hidden secret inside the Forbidden City promises intrigue, dark comedy, and Qing Dynasty palace politics.

A celebrated singer targeted by a cruel warlord captures the tension between art, beauty, and male brutality.

A woman's wartime memoir frames love and survival against the Japanese occupation of 1941 Hong Kong.

An innocent girl's rise through concubine intrigues mirrors the corrupting pull of imperial ambition.

A young man hunted by dark mystical forces navigates a world where family honor and supernatural danger collide.

A Qing Dynasty empress who ruled through palace intrigue for fifty years gets the epic treatment she demands.

A 1930s Shanghai dance hostess balancing love, poverty, and three complicated men evokes gorgeous, melancholy period atmosphere.

A disguised emperor and a righteous tutor's daughter clash in a dynastic power struggle with romance at its core.

Imperial concubines weaponize loyalty and betrayal in a Qing court where harmony is always a facade.

A Ming Dynasty corruption investigation teams an unlikely pair, blending procedural mystery with court-era spectacle.

Palace rumor and rival ambitions drive women against each other in a drama where loyalty is the rarest currency.

A roguish Song Dynasty monk disrupts a troubled era with irreverent compassion in this period comedy-drama.

A Qing Dynasty friendship strong enough to demand self-sacrifice anchors this tale of loyalty and political upheaval.

Three women's intertwined fates of love and hatred in a classic Chinese novel adaptation crackle with emotional intensity.

Hong Kong cinema's martial arts fantasy aesthetic comes alive in this gravity-defying post-apocalyptic action game.

A 1950s Tokyo murder mystery with obsession and dark secrets mirrors the noirish undercurrents of period drama.

Historically immersive Three Kingdoms strategy captures the heroic drama and factional intrigue of China's epic past.

Love and dynastic warfare intertwine as Liu Bei wages war to rescue a woman and reshape the fate of kingdoms.

Build and govern a Chinese empire from a riverbank plot — history as lived responsibility, not just spectacle.

A student's forbidden romance in exam-season China finds tenderness and stakes in the most ordinary circumstances.

A life-sim rooted in Chinese family culture traces the pressures of expectation, class, and personal ambition.

A 2005 college romance painted in quiet emotion captures the longing for freedom beneath everyday constraints.

A Tang Dynasty courtesan and a scholar thrown together by murder discover desire across an impossible social divide.

A sweeping cross-cultural love story set against the forbidden world of 18th-century China and its rigid social codes.

Seventeen years of thwarted love in Mao-era China expose how duty and tradition quietly consume private desire.

A meticulous history of Chinese homosexual tradition shatters the Confucian stereotype with surprising intimacy and scholarship.

A larger-than-life Englishman carving an empire from 19th-century China channels the era's collision of ambition and exoticism.

Peasants watching their garlic crop rot expose how economic collapse strips away the illusions of rural tradition.

A portrait of a dragon empress draws on Chinese art history to illuminate the woman behind the imperial legend.

An exotic Penang plantation offers escape — but a treacherous heartbreaker's betrayal follows a proud nobleman across the world.