Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to rule as emperor, remains a figure of fascination and debate. Born in ...

After his death, she married his ninth son and successor, Emperor Gaozong. Emperor Wu is often remembered as a woman who schemed and murdered her way to power, but she did govern efficiently ...

an era under the reign of Emperor Gaozong. The epitaph was originally housed by the Relics Management Institute of the Pengshui ­Miao-Tujia autonomous county. It will be displayed at the ...