Wu Zhao - noble, beautiful and well-educated - became the concubine of the elderly Emperor Taizong at the age of 14, and became China's only female emperor through a series of alleged murders.

In all of Chinese history, only one woman has ruled in her own name as empress regnant. From A.D. 665, when she and her husband the Emperor Gaozong effectively took joint control of the imperial court ...

Empress Wu Zetian (624–705) Updated: 2018-09-03. Print: Mail: Large Medium Small: Wu Zetian, whose family was from Bing Zhou (modern-day Wenshui county, Shanxi province), was an empress and an ...

Chinese historians liked to say Empress Wu Zetian favored her daughter, ... The answer may lie in the newly discovered tomb of her first husband and the circumstances surrounding Xue’s burial. Xue’s ...

Wu Zetian was a fifth-grade concubine in the Chinese royal harem in the 7th century who rose to become China's only empress. This is how she used Buddhism and Nalanda-trained scholars to capture ...

Wu Zetian was China’s first empress, which outraged men ‘BRAZEN’ | Excerpts from a forthcoming graphic novel highlighting women throughout history. January 16, 2018. By The Lily News.

Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China as emperor, reigned during the Tang dynasty and subsequently founded her own Zhou dynasty. Her reign lasted from 690 to 705 AD. A shrewd strategist ...

Wu (she is always known by her surname) has every claim to be considered a great empress. She held power, in one guise or another, for more than half a century, first as consort of the ineffectual ...

Wu Zetian was the only empress in China’s 4,000 year history and ruled during the two decades of the Zhou dynasty. Liu will join forces with “Game of ... her husband,” Liu said.

Seeking to consolidate her grip on the Chinese throne, Empress Wu Zetian embarked on an audacious project: expanding the imperial palace on a scale never before seen in China, or the world.