Empress Wu Zetian

Author: Ge Siyu
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: She is a lecherous, cruel, and vicious woman; she is a diligent and people-loving empress; to win favor, she personally killed her own daughter; to seize power, she captured both father and son emperors with her beauty. Wu Zetian was the only female emperor in ancient Chinese history. At the age of 14, she entered the palace and gradually rose from an obscure female official to Zhao Yi, Chen Ji, and Empress under Emperor Gaozong, then to ruling empress dowager and finally empress. Her accession to the throne itself was an unprecedented challenge to the extreme patriarchal society of feudal China, which was upheld by a whole set of philosophical systems. She served Emperor Gaozong for 29 years, ruled as regent for 6 years, and reigned as empress for 15 years. Over her 50-year political career, her tenacity and intelligence were fully demonstrated. The entire book is grand in style, vividly painted, with a winding storyline and lifelike characters. It is a long historical biography novel with an epic style and strong readability.