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Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God by Jonathan Clements

Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God

Jonathan Clements

318 pages paperback 2007

9 editions

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Empress Wu Zetian (624-705 AD) was the only woman to be the sovereign ruler of imperial China. A teenage concubine of the Tang Emperor Taizong, she seduced his son while the emperor lay dying. Recalled from a nunnery as part of an intricate court ...

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