A eunuch (/ˈjuːnək/ YOO-nək) is a male who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. The earliest records...
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A eunuch (/ˈjuːnək/ YOO-nək) is a man who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. In China, castration...
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A eunuch is a man who has been castrated. Eunuch or Eunuchs may also refer to: Eunuch (TV series), a 1980 Hong Kong TV series Eunuch (film), a 1986 South...
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The Ethiopian eunuch (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያዊው ጃንደረባ) is a figure in the New Testament of the Bible; the story of his conversion to Christianity is recounted in...
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Castration (redirect from Eunuch effect)
Baghdad at the beginning of the 10th Century had 7,000 black eunuchs and 4,000 white eunuchs in his palace." The Arab slave trade typically dealt in the...
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Ganymedes (died early 47 BC) was a eunuch in the court of Cleopatra VII who proved an able adversary of Julius Caesar. Ganymedes was the tutor of Cleopatra's...
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Hijra (South Asia) (redirect from Eunuch-hijra)
In the Indian subcontinent, hijra are transgender, intersex, or eunuch people who live in communities that follow a kinship system known as guru-chela...
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The eunuch flute, onion flute, or mirliton (/ˈmɜːrlɪtɒn/; French: flûte eunuque, flûte à l'oignon or mirliton; German: Zwiebelflöte) is a membranophone...
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The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis...
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Eunuchs (in Greek οἱ εὐνοῦχοι) were an extremely important and numerous category of courtiers of the Byzantine Emperor. Their main purpose was to serve...
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The Last Eunuch of China: The Life of Sun Yaoting (simplified Chinese: 末代太监孙耀庭传; traditional Chinese: 末代太監孫耀庭傳) is a 1992 biography by Chinese writer Jia...
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also translated into English as The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean or The Journey of Sanbao the Eunuch to the Western Ocean, is a classic...
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first Ming dynasty eunuch with power in the court. He served Zhu Qizhen who promoted him to become 'one of the most powerful eunuch "dictators" in Ming...
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Ming dynasty (redirect from Eunuchs during the Ming Dynasty)
in the world. He also took great care breaking the power of the court eunuchs and unrelated magnates, enfeoffing his many sons throughout China and attempting...
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Lai Shi, China's Last Eunuch, also known as Last Eunuch in China (Chinese: 中國最後一個太監) is a 1988 Hong Kong historical drama film directed by Jacob Cheung...
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Castrato (redirect from Eunuch singer)
evirato, literally meaning "emasculated". Eunuch is a more general term since, historically, many eunuchs were castrated after puberty and thus the castration...
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Eunuch (Korean: Naeshi) is a 1986 South Korean drama film directed by Lee Doo-yong. The film was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign...
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The Eunuch (Chinese:鬼太監) is a 1971 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Teddy Yip, and starring Pai Ying and Lisa Chiao Chiao. Pai Ying as Lord Kuei Teh Hai...
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Li Lianying: The Imperial Eunuch, also known as The Last Eunuch (albeit inaccurately), is a 1991 Chinese biographical film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang...
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The Confidant (redirect from The Great Eunuch)
Empress Dowager Cixi, and Wayne Lai as imperial eunuch Li Lianying. The drama depicts how a group of eunuchs survive in the weakening Qing empire, and closely...
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Kizlar agha (redirect from Chief Black Eunuch)
Turkish: دار السعاده اغاسي, Turkish: Darüssaade Ağası), was the head of the eunuchs who guarded the Ottoman Imperial Harem in Constantinople. Established in...
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Ten Attendants (redirect from Ten Eunuchs)
The Ten Attendants, also known as the Ten Eunuchs, were a group of influential eunuch-officials in the imperial court of Emperor Ling (r. 168–189) in...
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Sun Yaoting (category Qing dynasty eunuchs)
Yao-t'ing; 29 September 1902 – 17 December 1996) was the last surviving imperial eunuch of Chinese history. Born into poverty, his family home was burned and fields...
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comprise a group of eight eunuchs called "High Eunuchs". In the manga Red River, one of the main villains, Urhi, is a eunuch. Eunuchs feature prominently in...
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Harem (section Eunuchs and slavery)
housed enslaved concubines. In former times, some harems were guarded by eunuchs who were allowed inside. The structure of the harem and the extent of monogamy...
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Eunuchus (redirect from The Eunuch (play))
Eunuchus (The Eunuch) is a comedy written by the 2nd century BC Roman playwright Terence featuring a complex plot of rape and reconciliation. It was Terence's...
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The Eunuch of Stamboul is a 1935 spy thriller novel by the British writer Dennis Wheatley. A British army officer is forced to resign his commission to...
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Emasculation (category Eunuchs)
are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have...
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Eunuchs is a television documentary film which premiered 3 April 2007 on Channel 4. The film interviewed and followed the lives of a number of men who...
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Eunuch & Carpenter is a Taiwanese television series set in the period when the eunuch Wei Zhongxian controlled the Chinese imperial court. Directed by...
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