I once witnessed a woman present her daughter-in-law with five taels of gold at her wedding, impressing the guests with her ...

The lender has opted not to pursue civil claims against the suspect and has appealed to the investigating police agency for a ...

Those who were highly skilled could earn several taels (one tael is approximately 30 grams) of silver every month, but received no add bonuses. Clean baskets had to be used to cleanse the rice ...

After 10 years of filming and another three years of editing, Mabel Cheung, director of An Autumn’s Tale and Eight Taels of Gold, has finally completed her latest documentary, To My Nineteen ...

The empress dowager's food expense was 60 taels of silver a day during Qianlong's Reign. When Cixi took power, she became not only "Her Majesty Empress Dowager," but slao the supreme ruler with ...

Most gold shops have set restrictions on the volume of gold that one individual can buy each day. Just minutes after opening every day, shops simultaneously announce that they have no more gold to ...

The Song also committed itself to an annual payment of 200,000 bolts of silk and 100,000 taels of silver to the Liao. The agreement ensured relative peace and stability for the Song and permitted it ...

The informant will receive 250 taels of silver, and in addition the entire property of the criminal." The much bigger challenge was to keep the worth of the new currency intact. Here, the key ...

Trafficking in irreverence, the film follows a pair of stepsiblings with sexual tension. By Natalia Winkelman In the finale of Wang Bing’s nonfiction trilogy, garment-factory workers return to ...

The amended indictment said Kwong had stolen a total of 35 necklaces, 31 bracelets, 13 gold bars, 102 gold grains, six pendants and 10 taels of gold from six people. The court will formally hear ...