Wu Zhao : China's only woman emperor /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pearson Longman,
[2008]
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| Series: | Library of world biography.
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Table of Contents:
- What's in a name?
- Historical preconditions for the ascent of a female emperor: Steppe culture, the Silk Road and Buddhism
- From the Sichuan countryside to the inner palace
- Empress Wu: a changing of the guard
- The two sages
- Celestial empress and grand dowager
- Wu Zhao as lover: lady of perfect satisfaction
- Sage mother rising
- Queen of terror
- Bodhisattva of mercy
- Emperor of the Zhou dynasty
- Octogenarian in retreat: succession, factionalism, and craneriding in the final years
- Conclusion: the vain quest for Wu Zhao.