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...
View ArticleWu 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleWu 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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