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The following is a list of empresses and queens consort of China. China has periodically been divided into kingdoms as well as united under empires, resulting in consorts titled both queen and empress. The empress title could also be given posthumously.
Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China. Oxford, England: One World Publications. ISBN 978-1-85168-530-1. Clements, Jonathan (2007). Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God. Stroud: Sutton. ISBN 978-0-7509-3961-4.
The Empress of China (simplified Chinese: 武媚娘传奇; traditional Chinese: 武媚娘傳奇; pinyin: Wǔ Mèiniáng chuánqí) is a 2014 Chinese television series based on events in the 7th and 8th-century Tang dynasty, starring producer Fan Bingbing as the titular character Wu Zetian—the only female emperor (empress regnant) in Chinese history.
Official Chinese histories list only one reigning empress, Empress Wu of Tang. However, there have been numerous cases in Chinese history where a woman was the actual power behind the imperial throne. Empress Dowager Cixi, Regent of China considered de facto sovereign of China for 47 years during AD 1861–1908
Wei Zifu (simplified Chinese: 卫子夫; traditional Chinese: 衛子夫; pinyin: Weì Zǐfū; Wade–Giles: Wei Tzu-fu; died 9 September 91 BC [3]), posthumously known as Empress Si of the Filial Wu (Chinese: 孝武思皇后; pinyin: Xiàowǔ Sī Huánghòu) or Wei Si Hou (衛思后, "Wei the Thoughtful Empress"), was an empress consort during ancient China's Han dynasty.
During Liu Che and Chen Jiao's reign, the Han dynasty of China would begin to greatly expand in territory in all directions and subjugate the northern Xiongnu nomads, thereby ushering in a golden age for China. For her role as the first empress during this golden era, Empress Chen would become the subject of much writing, poetry, odes, and ...
An empress dowager who lived through the reigns of at least two subsequent emperors would be called grand empress dowager (太皇太后; tàihuángtàihòu). The other imperial consorts of the former emperor would be addressed as dowager (太; tài ) according to their rank, but it was not required.
Yang Xianrong (羊獻容) (died 13 May 322 [5]), posthumous name (as honored by Former Zhao) Empress Xianwen (獻文皇后, literally "the wise and civil empress"), was an empress—uniquely in the history of China, for two different dynastic empires and two different emperors.