CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · Arts & Letters

Da Tang Nü Xun An

television series

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5207313 ↗
Source-derived summary

Da Tang Nü Xun An (大唐女巡按; "Female Inspector of the Great Tang") is a Chinese television series about Xie Yaohuan (谢瑶环), a fictional Tang dynasty female detective who solves several mysterious cases during the reign of the female emperor Wu Zetian. Directed by Tao Lingling, the series starred Gillian Chung, Benny Chan, Wan Ni'en, Lei Mu, Wu Jingjing, Wang Ji, Qian Yongchen, Kathy Yuen and Dong Qing. The series was first broadcast on Dragon Television on 7 July 2011 in mainland China.

Editorial summary

“Da Tang Nü Xun An” enters the record as television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tang, television and series can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tang, television and series.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Da Tang Nü Xun An” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tang, television and series provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5207313. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Da Tang Nü Xun An”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Da Tang Nü Xun An primary sources, Da Tang Nü Xun An archive and Tang research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Da Tang Nü Xun An”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Da Tang Nü Xun An” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.