Wu accused the Empress Wang of strangling the child (whom ... and taking the name Wu Zetian. But as brutal as her rise to power undoubtedly was, her rule proved to be an enlightened one.

Qianling, the tomb of the third Tang emperor, Li Zhi, and Empress Wu Zetian, is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Qianxian County seat and 80 kilometers from Xi'an. Here also ...

LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands — The exhibition Wu Zetian: The Only Female Emperor of China debuted on Oct 25 at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics in Leeuwarden, a city in northern Netherlands.

How did she do it? She did so with ruthless determination – she killed her own newborn child – and then framed the Empress for the murder. Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty Wu Zetian ...

Each work has been carefully screen printed with glitter coat which offers that gleaming effect on them. Each Empress from this series is named after five exceptionally influential female rulers: Wu ...

Wu Zetian was the first ... was made Noble Consort Yi, second only to the empress. Unusually, she could read and write Chinese and became educated in state affairs. In 1860, just before his ...

The Shadow of Empress Wu, also known as Riyue Lingkong, is a Chinese television series about the relationship between Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history, and Xie Yaohuan ...