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Who was Yang Guifei, the beautiful Chinese princess blamed for toppling the Tang dynasty?

· By Ashlyn Chak
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One of ancient China’s ‘Four Beauties’, Yang besotted an emperor, was the target of a rebellion, and in death became a tragic romantic icon

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