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The empress Wu Zetian (624-705) was one of China's greatest rulers. She is also known by the name Wu Zhao and a few others. Wu Zetian was the only woman The empress Wu Zetian (624-705) was one of China's greatest rulers and the only woman to rule China in her own name. She was said to be ruthless and cruel, but her sponsorship of Buddhism had a lasting impact.
This post was originally published as part of the Thucydides Roundtable project over at Zenpundit. I encourage you to read all of the posts in the roundtable.Meet Sima Qian. I hold him in high regard. You could say that this was a historian with balls. Sima Qian is sometimes called the “Herodotus of the East.”…
Contemporary Chinese literature, from the 1980s to the present, has been highly diverse in its manifestations.
BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) -- "What we take from nature should be well-measured, and how we use these things should be restrained" was once proposed by an ancient Chinese official, and the proposal has deeply resonated with President Xi Jinping.
BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) -- "What we take from nature should be well-measured, and how we use these things should be restrained" was once proposed by an ancient Chinese official, and the proposal has deeply resonated with President Xi Jinping.