I've seen a few with some action from the female's side (as far as I can remember):
Liu Cecilia's roles also tend to be the strong female one's - Sound of the Desert, Love In Lost Times, Chinese Paladine 3 (lots of great actors but I didn't have time to watch yet), Legend of the Condor Heroes 2008,
Eternal Love (ten miles of peach blossom) - I think this one is a much watch and the main actress (Yang Mi also great actress) had different characters played here.
The King's Woman
The Journey of Flower (Zhao Zanilia also tends to play powerful characters)
Ha Ji Won's dramas - she tends to choose strong female characters like in Empress Ki, and maybe King2Hearts but it's not historical
Queen Seon Duk
Sword and Flower
Love at First Fight
Ichi (japanese)
My Wife Is A Gangster - but it's not historical, more action-comedy
maybe Shinobi (with nakama yukie), The Legend (kdrama), Mu Lan