Wu Zetian was a fifth-grade concubine in the Chinese royal harem in the 7th century who rose to become China's only empress. This is how she used Buddhism and Nalanda-trained scholars to capture ...

Wu Zhao - noble, beautiful and well-educated - became the concubine of the elderly Emperor Taizong at the age of 14, and became China's only female emperor through a series of alleged murders.

Wu (she is always known by her surname) has every claim to be considered a great empress. She held power, in one guise or another, for more than half a century, first as consort of the ineffectual ...

Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China as emperor, reigned during the Tang dynasty and subsequently founded her own Zhou dynasty. Her reign lasted from 690 to 705 AD. A shrewd strategist ...

Was China’s Empress Wu the richest woman ever? Played by Fan Bingbing in Empress of China, she would have had US$16 trillion today – much more than L’Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers ...

The drama will be centered on Wu Zetian, the only female empress in the history of China. By Lesley Goldberg Chris Newman, Xu Yan, Kia Jam - Publicity - H 2016 With the end of Game of Thrones in ...

Seeking to consolidate her grip on the Chinese throne, Empress Wu Zetian embarked on an audacious project: expanding the imperial palace on a scale never before seen in China, or the world.