Imperial Mother Regnant: From Empress Lü to Empress Dowager Cixi

Author: Zhou Xishan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: A New Perspective on History Series, the first three volumes, rich and engaging content, accessible language, strong readability, enjoyable for both scholars and general readers, and offering important life wisdom to young readers. This series pioneers the integration of history and literature to narrate and comment on significant figures and events in Chinese history, ensuring comprehensiveness, systematicity, and completeness in historical knowledge. Each volume is based on historical classics such as the "Twenty-Four Histories" and the "Zizhi Tongjian," as well as other reliable sources, incorporating key historical materials with clear or fresh interpretations and citing insightful views from past and contemporary scholars. With this foundation, the author presents numerous original, thought-provoking, bold, and sometimes astonishingly brilliant perspectives. The author excels at transforming China's vast historical resources—unparalleled in the world as a great historical nation—into creative achievements that meet the urgent needs of modern readers. Using the integration of history and literature, this series comprehensively, systematically, and completely introduces all the "empresses who ruled in place" in Chinese history, analyzing and summarizing these young and beautiful women who won the favor of emperors with their extraordinary beauty but lost their husbands at a young age, as well as their diverse life performances as empresses taking on military and political leadership responsibilities. It clearly reveals the growth experiences, life lessons, and leadership insights of the outstanding among them in building their legacies, offering significant inspiration to contemporary readers. Life is unpredictable, and beautiful women often face adversity. The tragic songs of women in ancient times. Even in the turbulent feudal society where beauty was often a curse, strong women maintained self-respect and confidence, standing out and inspiring modern women with their resilience. Many of them are like scattered pearls in historical records, hard to find, but in this series, they are strung together into dazzling halos, shining with the enduring light of their souls, characters, and wisdom.