Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to rule as emperor, remains a figure of fascination and debate. Born in ...

Wu Zhao - noble, beautiful and well-educated - became the concubine of the elderly Emperor Taizong at the age of ... Wu accused the Empress Wang of strangling the child (whom she had reputedly ...

Only one woman has ever sat on China’s throne as Emperor in her own ... she killed her own newborn child – and then framed the Empress for the murder. Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty ...