Chinese Characters is a new series of essays exploring Chinese history through the life stories of key personalities. Here, series presenter Rana Mitter tells the story of Wu Zetian, the female ...

Wu Zetian is a Chinese television series based on the life story of Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to assume the title of Empress Regnant and became the de facto ruler of China in ...

The present work comes from Hirst's Empresses series, each design dedicated to one of history's great female rulers. The present work, Wu Zetian, is named after the infamous 7th Century Chinese leader ...