Wu empress biography of alberta

  • Overall Wu Zetian was a decisive, capable ruler in the roles of empress, empress dowager, and emperor.
  • This, the last volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women to be pub- lished, is chronologically the second.
  • Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages.

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    A Western Family’s China Saga

    China uppdrag is an engrossing group biography and a valuable overview of a country’s turbulent transformations

    China Mission by Audrey Ronning Topping. LSU Press. 472 pages.

    WHILE WE ALL like to think we komma from interesting families, journalist Audrey Ronning Topping can say this of herself with some certainty, and she has now turned her kin’s experiences into a truly fascinating book. Covering the 1860s to the present, China Mission traces her family’s three generations of involvement with China, including her own engagement with the place. This amounts to an engrossing group biography and a valuable overview of a country’s turbulent transformations.


    The story begins with her grandfather, Halvor Ronning, who was born in Norway in 1862, immigrated to the United States in 1883, and in 1891, accompanied by his sister and wife, became the first Lutheran missionary in the interior of China. He was a vigorous man who lived to be 88, while man

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    I’ve had some requests for “a page” for all of the sources I’ve used to be posted… since it can admittedly be somewhat inconvenient to have to click through all the show notes…

    So… here you go (to be updated intermittently as necessary and as I see fit and as I actually summon the resolve to do so):

    • Abramson, Marc S. (2008). Ethnic Identity in Tang China.
    • Bartold, Vasily (1928). Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion (Trans. T. Minorsky & C.E. Bosworth).
    • Benn, James A. Burning for the Buddha.
    • Bennett Peterson, Barbara. Notable Women of China: From the Shang to the Early 20th Century
    • Chamney, Lee (2012). “The An Shi Rebellion and Rejection of the Other in Tang China, 618-763.” University of Alberta.
    • Chen, Jinhua. “Sarira and Scepter. Empress Wu’s Political Use of Buddhist Relics” in the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, vol. 25 No. 1-2
    • Chen, Sanping (2012). Multicultural China in the Early Mi

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      Wu Zetian (624–705)

      Controversial ruler of Tang China who dominated kinesisk politics for half a century, first as empress, then as empress-dowager, and finally as kejsare of the Zhou Dynasty (690–705) that she founded . Name variations: Wu Ze-tian; Wu Chao, Wu Hou, or Wu Zhao; Wu Mei or Wu Meiliang; Wu Tse-t'ien, Wo Tsetien, or Wu Tso Tien; Wu of Hwang Ho or Huang He; Empress Wu, Lady Wu. Pronunciation: Woo-jeh-ten. Born née Wu (first name at birth not known) in 624 in Taiyuan, Shanxi province; died in 705 in Luoyang, Henan province; daughter of a high-ranking official, Wu Shihuo, and his aristocratic wife; married Emperor Taizong (r. 626–649), in 640 (died 649); married kejsare Gaozong (r. 650–683), in 654; children: (second marriage) Crown Prince Li Hong; Crown Prince Li Xian; Emperor Zhongzong; Emperor Ruizong; Princess Taiping ; another daughter (died in infancy).

      Became concubine to Emperor Taizong (640); entered Buddhist nunnery (649); returned to the palace as concu