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Empress Wu the Great /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Pub.,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Origins of a future sovereign
- The Wu family
- Wu's father rises from a merchant to a nobleman
- Mr. Wu marries up
- Mr. Wu becomes a governor
- Mr. Wu departs this realm
- The establishment of the tang dynasty
- Mr. Wu's sponsor becomes the second emperor of the tang dynasty
- Empress Changsun and a few of the courtiers
- Miss Wu becomes an imperial concubine
- The sons vie for the succession
- Selecting the crown prince
- Introduction to the crown prince
- Sent to a nunnery
- The new emperor reigns
- Empress Wang gets Wu back to the palace
- Empress Wang and concubine Xiao unite against concubine Wu
- Concubine Wu fights back
- The courtiers take sides
- Empress Wang and her supporters take a mis-step
- Empress Wang and the crown prince are removed
- Wu becomes empress
- From empress to empress dowager
- Advancing supporters and annihilating opponents
- Taking part in politics
- The pleasures of traveling
- Relationship with her children
- The empress dowager consolidates her power
- Standing at the top
- View from the summit
- Rebellions
- The largest rebellion
- The rebellions of the Princes Li
- Other rebellions
- Abuse of power at every level
- Picking favorites
- Naming a successor
- Empress Wu's favorites
- Relations with other nations
- Tibet
- Korea
- The Tujue clan
- Japan and Arabia
- Famous legends about Empress Wu
- Face reading
- Flowers blooming in winter
- Other legends.