Inviting 18 people to attend the tea party followed the example set by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, who selected 18 literati from all over the nation to live and work in the Hall of ...

Emperor Taizu and his brother Emperor Taizong (939–997) conquered several southern kingdoms in the 960s ... 122 This account of the history of the Xia frames it entirely according to its relation with ...

Originally published in 1933, this book presents a comprehensive biography of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, also known by the personal name of Li Shimin. Detailed information is provided on the ...

They looked to Tang Dynasty rulers in order to use their ... missionaries from Syria to China during the reign of Emperor ...

Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty Wu Zetian started at court ... but she managed to get close to her Emperor, Taizong, by changing his bedsheets. When he died, she was sent to a Buddhist ...

Wu Zhao - noble, beautiful and well-educated - became the concubine of the elderly Emperor Taizong at the age of ... the founding emperor of a new Zhou dynasty, and taking the name Wu Zetian.