Unlike Chinese culture, Taghbach culture had long known women warriors who could ride horses and shoot arrows without concealing their gender. Empress Dowager Ling was not a warrior, but she ...

Here, series presenter Rana Mitter tells the story of Wu Zetian, the female Emperor. Only one woman has ever sat on China’s throne ... and then framed the Empress for the murder.

the empress promptly employed the girl as her personal secretary. Thus began an extraordinary 27-year relationship between China’s only female emperor and the woman whose family she had destroyed.

Wu accused the Empress Wang of strangling the child (whom ... like a rooster", Wu began a campaign to elevate the status of women, recruiting scholars to write biographies of famous women, and ...

But who is Empress Wu Zetian of China’s Tang? Empress Wu was the female ruler in China’s history and led during the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD). She officially ruled from 690 to 705 AD.