She rose from a teenage concubine to become the only woman to rule China under her own name. But was Wu Zetian a visionary leader or a ruthless tyrant?

The capital pulsates with strange signs and foreboding omens as Emperor Gaozong, lying on his deathbed within the palace, contemplates the legacy he leaves behind. Amidst the complexities of war in ...

In Montenegro and the wider Balkan region, there is a growing curiosity about international cultures, including China's.

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

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A mother's heartfelt letter to her daughter encourages building a feminist library, emphasising the power of books in ...

In Wu Zetian (H10-1), Hirst employs one of his signature motifs: butterflies. The present work comes from Hirst's Empresses series, each design dedicated to one of history's great female rulers. The ...

To spice things up, Empress Wu Zetian of China (the only woman to hold the title of an emperor) had to establish an actual institute known as Kong He Jian to manage her large number of lovers.

The showiest patron of all may have been Empress Wu Zetian, whose desire for divine pro­jection—and protection—led her to oversee, in 695, the creation of the complex's largest statue ...