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Wu Zhao: China's Only Woman Emperor. Pearson Education. Shu-fang Dien, Dora (2003). Empress Wu Zetian in Fiction and in History: Female Defiance in Confucian China. Nova Publishing. Explores the life of Empress Wu Zetian and the ways women found to participate in public life, despite the societal constraints of dynastic China.
Lü was the first woman to assume the title Empress of China and paramount power. After Gaozu's death, she was honoured as empress dowager and regent during the short reigns of Emperor Hui and his successors Emperor Qianshao of Han and Liu Hong (Emperor Houshao).
1127–1139: Empress Xing, first empress consort of Emperor Gaozong; 1143–1162: Empress Wu, second empress consort of Emperor Gaozong; 1162–1167: Empress Xia, first empress consort of Emperor Xiaozong; 1167–1189: Empress Xie, second empress consort of Emperor Xiaozong; 1189–1194: Empress Li Fengniang, empress consort of Emperor Guangzong
Hence, Wu Zetian remains as the first and only recognised female huangdi in Chinese history. [36] Researcher Cheng Yang (成扬) believes that the fact that Yuan was the "first female in history to ascend the imperial throne" cannot be denied despite it being a plot by Empress Dowager Hu.
Ban Zhao, China's first female historian, is born. 52: The Yuejue Shu was written. 57: 29 March: Guangwu died. He was succeeded by his son Emperor Ming of Han. 58: The Han chancellor Deng Yu died. 65: Ming's half brother Liu Ying converted to Buddhism. 68: The Buddhist White Horse Temple was established in Luoyang. 73: February
Imagined portrait of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of a unified China. Depiction from the Qing dynasty. The Chinese monarchs were the rulers of China during Ancient and Imperial periods. [a] The earliest rulers in traditional Chinese historiography are of mythological origin, and followed by the Xia dynasty of highly uncertain and contested ...
'Consort Zhao'; [n 1] c. 280 –228 BC), personal name unknown, was the wife of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and the mother of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. [1] Upon her marriage, she was the Lady Zhao; after the king's death, she was the Queen Dowager (Chinese: 太 后).
Empress Dowager Cixi (Mandarin pronunciation: [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì]; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively but periodically controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost 50 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908.