Article: Historical Relics About Female Emperor Displayed

Article: Chinese experts are studying proposals to dig tombs of ancient ...
Xinhua News Agency;  July 5, 2005 ;     465 words ... ... ancient Emperor Qin Shihuang and Empress Wu Zetian, says official BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua ... tombs of Emperor Qin Shihuang and Empress Wu Zetian, said Zhang Bai, vice director of the ... tombs of Emperor Qin Shihuang and Empress Wu Zetian are preserved well and no illegal excavation ...

Article: Imperial Music of Tang Dynasty to Be Staged
Xinhua News Agency;  November 3, 2001 ;     427 words ... ... imperial band which performed during Empress Wu Zetian's reign in the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.). According to a ... that the band was sponsored by Empress Wu Zetian. But in the late Tang dynasty, was dismissed because thedepleted national ...

Article: Time line.(Tang dynasty emperors)(Illustration)
Calliope;  November 1, 2003 ;     473 words ... ... POSTHUMOUS (TEMPLE) NAME Li Yuan 618-626 Gaozu Li Shimin 626-649 Taizong Li Zhi 649-683 Gaozong Wu Zhao 689-705 Wu Zetian (Empress Wu) Li Longji 712-756 Xuanzong * * Xuanzong is also known as Ming huang, "Brilliant Emperor"

Article: Longmen Grottoes: Relic site to worship for only reigning ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... the face of Empress Wu Zetian, the only empress ... reigned during the Tang Dynasty 1,309 years ago ... also call it Empress Wu Zetian's Statue. About ... during the succeeding Tang Dynasty. Today, Empress Wu Zetian's Statute in Longmen ...

Article: Good reads to stay ahead
New Straits Times;  February 5, 2003 ;     536 words ... ... Fascinating and Deeply Strategic Mind of Empress Wu Zetian By Foo Check Teck Horizon Books RM38, pp214 BORN in 625 AD during the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian began her career at the age of 13, when she became ...

Article: Ancient River Banks Discovered in Central China
Xinhua News Agency;  June 13, 2000 ;     354 words ... ... the banks were believed to be constructed in the Tang Dynasty (618-917) and the south bank was rebuilt in ... hub for land and river transportation during the Tang Dynasty. Wu Zetian, the only empress in China's history, lived ...

Article: Days of Dancing and Flags.(China)(Brief Article)
Newsweek International;  December 27, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... I arrived in late 1993 as a graduate student, intending to spend a year at Peking University studying the Tang dynasty Empress Wu Zetian. But I felt restricted on campus and wondered, "Where is the real China?" I began working in NEWSWEEK ...