The capital pulsates with strange signs and foreboding omens as Emperor Gaozong, lying on his deathbed within the palace, ...

Empress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court as a fifth-tier concubine, but she ended her life as the country's only female ...

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 ...

In Wu Zetian (H10-1), Hirst employs one of his signature motifs: butterflies. The present work comes from Hirst's Empresses series, each design dedicated to one of history's great female rulers. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lorien Chen, editor of BQ magazine tells listeners that famous Chinese movie star Liu Xiaoqing will come to Melbourne with her stage play ' Empress Wu Zeting' in early March.

Wu Zetian is a Chinese television series based on the life story of Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to assume the title of Empress Regnant and became the de facto ruler of China in ...