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Europe and Great Britain have had many sovereign queens in the course of history. In ancient China, there was none of that. Only one Empress ever ruled China in her own name - Empress Wu. Given her startling performance in a world of deadly intrigue and shifting loyalties, Wu is still respected as an effective and clear-sighted ruler.

Empresses --- Wu hou, --- Wuhou, --- Wu-hou, --- 武后, --- Tang Wuhou, --- Tang Wu hou, --- Tʻang Wu-hou, --- 唐武后, --- Wu, Zhao, --- Wu, Chao, --- 武[Zhao], --- Wu, Zetian, --- Wu, Tse-tʻien, --- Võ, Tá̆c Thiên, --- Wuzetian, --- 武則天, --- 武则天, --- Sokuten Bukō, --- Sokutenbukō, --- 則天武后, --- Zetian Wu hou, --- 则天武后, --- Wu, Meiniang, --- Wumeiniang, --- 武媚娘, --- China --- History --- 武則天

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This annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo's collection of miscellany, 'Court and Country', offers a lively, folksy, and novel perspective on the empire of Wu Zhao, China's first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China. The World of Wu Zhao includes separate chapters on a number of different themes and topics: Buddhist and Daoist monks, the female emperor's male favorites (who dressed up in rainbow feathered garments and pranced around her court astride wooden red-capped cranes), cruel officials (bloodthirsty henchmen who took an aesthetic delight in their vocation), as well as sections on flora and fauna, the common folk, artisans and craftsmen, the military, spirits and the supernatural, the borderlands, and local officials.

Wu hou, --- Zhang, Zhuo, --- China --- Court and courtiers. --- Social life and customs.

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Empresses --- Biography. --- Biography --- S05/0211 --- S06/0203 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--Sui and Tang --- China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: Sui - Yuan --- Wu hou, --- Wuhou, --- Wu-hou, --- 武后, --- Tang Wuhou, --- Tang Wu hou, --- Tʻang Wu-hou, --- 唐武后, --- Wu, Zhao, --- Wu, Chao, --- 武[Zhao], --- Wu, Zetian, --- Wu, Tse-tʻien, --- Võ, Tá̆c Thiên, --- Wuzetian, --- 武則天, --- 武则天, --- Sokuten Bukō, --- Sokutenbukō, --- 則天武后, --- Zetian Wu hou, --- 则天武后, --- Wu, Meiniang, --- Wumeiniang, --- 武媚娘, --- China --- History --- Tʻang dynasty, 618-907 --- Wu hou --- Empress of China --- 624-705 --- 武則天

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690 A.D. Outside the Imperial Palace in Luoyang, a giant Buddhist stupa pagoda is under construction. On the date of its completion, China's first female Emperor, Wu Zetian (Carina Lau), will formally ascend the throne of the largest and most powerful country in the world. But a series of unexplained incidents are threatening Wu's rise to power. Over a period of eight years, seven men who were all her trusted subordinates have spontaneously combusted in public; all that remains are hardened black ash and skeletal bones. Clearly, the murderer is challenging her authority. Determined to solve the case before her ascension, she turns to an unlikely savior, Dee Renjie (Andy Lau). She appoints Dee Renjie as Chief Judge of the Empire, a prestigious position that he had declined when she had offered it to him eight years ago. She believes that only the intellectually cultivated Dee Renjie has the wisdom - and the martial arts - to uncover the conspiracy against her.

Assassins --- Assassins. --- Detective and mystery plays. --- Empresses --- Empresses. --- Murder --- Murder. --- Tang Dynasty (China). --- Wu hou, --- Di, Renjie, --- 618-907. --- China --- China. --- History