5.Cersei Lannister

Making her first appearance on this list, Cersei Lannister is one of the most notorious characters in ASOIAF. Cunning, cruel, and manipulative, she is a murderous megalomaniac who, through the course of the series, manages to seize power as Queen Regent over the Seven Kingdoms until her son, King Tommen Baratheon, comes of age. Her rule, detailed in the fourth book of the series entitled A Feast for Crows, is noted for her increasingly erratic and paranoid decisions which ultimately lead to her own arrest and deposition from the throne. Essentially using her son as a puppet, she brings the Seven Kingdoms to the brink of collapse through her own vanity and incompetence.

Chinese Counterpart: Empress Dowager Cixi

The Chinese imperial line survived for 2,132 years. On one end was Qin Shi Huang, the unifier of China and founder of the Qin Dynasty. At the other was the Empress Dowager Cixi. Entering the palace at sixteen years old as a concubine, Cixi became a dowager empress ten years later when her five-year-old son assumed the throne. Her reign was a series of unmitigated disasters. Opposing badly needed reforms, she squelched China's finances with lavish personal excesses such as one incident where she diverted funds for the creation of a modern navy in order to build a lavish lakeside palace (which included a massive marble pavilion shaped like a Mississippi paddle-steamer). Predictably, soon afterwards China's antiquated navy was annihilated by the Japanese. Even worse, she officially sponsored the Boxer Rebellion, an anti-foreigner uprising which Cixi saw as an opportunity to regain control of China from foreign influence. Instead, the Rebellion was squashed by an alliance of Western countries after the Boxers attacked the International Legations in Beijing. In response, the Forbidden City was looted and Cixi had to flee from the capital disguised as a peasant. By the time she returned sixteen months later, China was further in debt to Western powers than ever before. Though she tried to enact last-minute reforms (some of which had been initially suggested by her emperor nephew years earlier, an act of rebellion against Cixi which led to his being arrested and imprisoned on an island), the writing was on the wall. China was incapable of defending itself against warlords and revolutionary groups. Four years after her death the Qing Dynasty collapsed with such force that the 2000+ year imperial line was severed.

4.Aegon IV Targaryen

More popularly referred to as Aegon the Unworthy, Aegon IV Targaryen was known primarily for two things: having an insatiable sexual appetite and siring a great number of bastards. A corrupt and incompetent man, he not only neglected his duties as king, he spent his days and nights having sex with as many women as he wanted. Under his rule, people began to joke that the words of House Targaryen were "Wash her and bring her to my bed." But his worst act as king was the legitimization of many of his bastards on his deathbed, leading to the Blackfyre Rebellion and open civil war in Westeros.

Chinese Counterpart: Zhengde Emperor

Even Aegon the Unworthy might have told the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhengde to tone things down when it came to his sexual pursuits. He decreed that his inner palace as well as his occasional places of residence by permanently staffed with "a substantial number of serving-women." Many of these women were taken unwillingly from the general population via draft campaigns. Even worse, Zhengde was either incapable or uninterested in maintaining his massive harems. Many of them died of hunger and illness every day. Also like Aegon the Unworthy, his death led to a crisis of succession. But unlike Aegon, the crisis was caused by his having no legitimate heirs.

3.Joffrey Baratheon

Oh yes, Chinese history has its very own Joffrey Baratheon. That's quite a claim considering that Joffrey is one of the most despised and hated characters not only in ASOIAF but in all of modern fiction. He has a stunning laundry list of abuses and atrocities to his name including, but not limited to: the murder of Eddard Stark (an act which leads to Robb Stark declaring himself King in the North and waging open war on the Iron Throne), the frequent humiliation and torture of Sansa Stark, the gleeful murder of starving townsfolk, and the abuse of his uncle Tyrion Lannister. He was finally murdered via poisoned wine during his wedding feast to Margaery Tyrell. He was mourned by nobody save his mother Cersei.

Chinese Counterpart: Liu Ziye

In 465 CE, Liu Ziye assumed the throne of the Liu Song Dynasty when he was seventeen years old. About a year later he was assassinated. Seemingly predisposed to psychotic acts of violence, Liu Ziye was so kill-crazy that "all officials, whether inside the court or outside, were in danger of losing their heads." He would frequently have high officials and family members killed. Also, in a move that would make Joffrey's mother proud, he had incestuous relationships with his sister and aunt.

2.The Reynes of Castamere

"The Rains of Castamere" is a popular song in the universe of ASOIAF which tells the story of Tywin Lannister's destruction of House Reyne of Castamere following their rebellion against House Lannister. The Reynes had risen alongside the Tarbecks of Tarbeck Hall after judging their liege lord Tytos Lannister to be too weak to stop them. But his son Tywin exterminated every member of both houses. The aforementioned song has become synonymous with no-quarter-given warfare and the ruthlessness of the Lannisters, so much so that its performance is a psychological weapon potent enough to sway the hearts and minds of those considering rebelling against them.

Chinese Counterpart: The Yangzhou Massacre

The Yangzhou Massacre may never have gotten its own popular song that would later be covered by Sigur Rós, but like the destruction of the Reynes of Castamere it involved the mass murder of innocent people in retaliation for the rebellious acts of their leaders and superiors. In 1645 an armed force loyal to the recently deposed Ming Dynasty were defeated by Manchu soldiers representing the newly founded Qing Dynasty in the city of Yangzhou. The Manchus then proceeded to lay waste to the population of the city, killing, looting, and raping with extreme prejudice. One source reported some examples of the slaughter: "Babies lay everywhere on the ground. The organs of those trampled like turf under horses' hooves or people's feet were smeared in the dirt, and the crying of those still alive filled the whole outdoors. Every gutter or pond that we passed was stacked with corpses…the canals, too, had been filled to level with dead bodies." The massacre was a crucial stepping stone in the destruction of dissent against the Qing Dynasty. Apparently, the message to the Chinese people had been received.

1.Queen Cersei versus Margaery Tyrell

It may seem odd to end this list with a struggle between two women, especially after previous entries have featured massacres and centuries of warfare. But Cersei Lannister's struggle for dominance against Margaery Tyrell during the fourth book of the ASOIAF series, A Feast for Crows, has such a shocking and repulsive real-life parallel that my discovery of it was what led me to write this list in the first place. Following the death of Tywin Lannister, Cersei became Queen Regent for her son King Tommen I.In desperate need of financial and military support, Tommen is married to Margaery, solidifying the alliance between the Iron Throne and House Tyrell. A cold war begins between Cersei and Margaery for influence over Tommen. Cersei finally triumphs when she frames Margaery for adultery and treason. The tables are unexpectedly turned on Cersei and both women are currently imprisoned awaiting trial in the as yet unreleased six book of the series, The Winds of Winter. Whether Cersei will eventually succeed in destroying Margaery is unknown at the time of this article being written. But the same cannot be said for…

Chinese Counterpart: Lady Lü and Her "Human Pig"

The rules of succession to the imperial line were a bit different in ancient China when compared to medieval Europe. The position of emperor was hereditary, but with each emperor having a veritable army of wives and concubines, picking exactly which heir would succeed his father was not always an easy task. Additionally, the position of empress was awarded to whomever was the mother of the current heir. If an heir fell out of favor, a new heir could be picked and a different woman would become the empress. Struggles for the emperor's favor could become life-or-death situations. Perhaps the best example of this took place in the Han Dynasty between Empress Lü and one of Emperor Gaozu's favorite concubines Lady Qi. The two conspired and plotted, machinated and schemed against each other for years all so that their sons would become the next Emperor of China. In the end, Gaozu died and Empress Lü emerged the winner. What happened next can best be described by Mr. Gascoigne: "After death the empress had no further need of polite methods. Lady Qi's son was poisoned, and any girl within the royal household of whom Gaozu had been unusually fond was killed. The fate of Lady Qi herself was particularly gruesome…the empress cut off Lady Qi's hands and feet, gouged out her eyes, burned her ears, gave her a potion which made her dumb, and threw her into the lower part of the privy and brought visitors to see the 'human pig.'"

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