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Hosted on MSNThe Only Empress of ChinaEmpress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court as a fifth-tier concubine, but she ended her life as the country's only female ...
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Wu Zetian: Finally Emperor - Chinese HistoryThe capital pulsates with strange signs and foreboding omens as Emperor Gaozong, lying on his deathbed within the palace, ...
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Chinese Characters is a new series of essays ... she killed her own newborn child – and then framed the Empress for the murder. Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty Wu Zetian started at ...
Chinese and Mongolian languages. The large mound in the center of Baocheng is the grave of the Emperor and Empress which is called Baoding (Precious Dome) or Dulongfu (Single Dragon Mound).
She quickly became a favourite and, after giving birth to Emperor Xianfeng's only son, was made Noble Consort Yi, second only to the empress. Unusually, she could read and write Chinese and ...
That was Empress Dowager Cixi’s life story; the woman who ruled China in the 19th century and arguably the most important Chinese woman in history. Born in 1835, Cixi was brought in as a ...
By Sean Graham This week, I’m joined by Dan Black, author of Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia. We talk about the ship’s earliest voyage following ...
Empress Wu Zetian for cosmetics. Located about twenty kilometers west of Luoyang and having a history of 1,900 years, this temple was the first Buddhist monastery ever built in China and is still ...
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