Wu empress biography books

Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God by Jonathan Clements is a well written, entirely readable and fully informative narration of Empress Wu Zeiten of the Tang Dynasty.

Other well written book about Empress Wu: Empress by Shan Sa.

Who is Empress Wu? She was the legendary female emperor from the Tang Dynasty (when Chinese art, cultures, economy, trade, military and...woman's fashion were developed to a new height), and she was also the one and *only* woman to rule in the place of emperor in the entire history of China.

Her path from bottom to the very top began when she became a lowly concubine of the Emperor, after the dead of her imperial husband, she married the dead Emperor's son and then she schemed and murdered her way to become her second husband's Empress (it wasn't easy when there were so many women in the h