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SONG DYNASTY (960 – 1279 A.D.) – Part 1/6

Fifty-three years after the Tang Dynasty collapsed, Zhao Kuangyin, a general in the latter Zhou Dynasty (951-960) led a mutiny resulting in the Song Dynasty being established in Kaifeng City, Henan...

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Wu Zetian, China’s Female Emperor – Part 2/4

Emperor Gaozong died in 683 AD, and Wu’s third son Lixian became the emperor. However, a month later, she had him removed from power. Then her fourth son refused to become the emperor but eventually...

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New Year’s Recap

There’s much about China that I did not know when we started this journey on January 28, 2010.  We visited China’s early dynasties (the Xia, Shang and Zhou) before Qin Shi Huangdi became the first...

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“Detective Dee” Movie Review and other Thoughts

The first time I learned of the Emperor Wu Zetian, who was a woman, was when I wrote a four part series of her starting with Wu Zetian, China’s Female Emperor – Part 1, October 9, 2010. In fact, while...

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Wu Zetian, China’s only Female Emperor — a “Very Early” Feminist (Viewed as...

After writing the post about Detective Dee, I decided to combine the four-part series of Emperor Wu Zetian (624 – 705 AD), who was the only woman in China’s history to be an emperor. Her rise and reign...

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