Wang Chao-chun, Yang Gui-fei, Xi Shi and Diau Charn are China's best known classic beauties, all sacrificing their happiness for their emperor's good. Director Li Han-hsiang became famous making films about these "chaste ladies", Diau Charn being the first, which starred Shaw's first darling of film, Linda Lin Dai, who attained cult status after her suicidal death several years later. (IVL) |