The World of Wu Zhao is a carefully curated set of more than 120 translated stories-all annotated and contextualized-on a range of topics from Zhang Zhuo's eighth century collection of miscellany, Collected Records of Court and Country (Chaoye qianzai ). The book provides English readers with a sense and feel for the empire during the reign of Wu Zhao (624-705, also known as Empress Wu and Wu Zetian), China's first and only female emperor. The World of Wu Zhao moves outward from the female sovereign's personal and ...
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The World of Wu Zhao is a carefully curated set of more than 120 translated stories-all annotated and contextualized-on a range of topics from Zhang Zhuo's eighth century collection of miscellany, Collected Records of Court and Country (Chaoye qianzai ). The book provides English readers with a sense and feel for the empire during the reign of Wu Zhao (624-705, also known as Empress Wu and Wu Zetian), China's first and only female emperor. The World of Wu Zhao moves outward from the female sovereign's personal and intimate domain of the inner palace. The text includes chapters on a number of different themes and topics: the female emperor's male favorites, the culture of the court , cruel officials, as well as sections on flora and fauna, the common folk, artisans and craftsmen, Buddhist and Daoist monks, the military, spirits and the supernatural, the borderlands, and local officials. Chapters are introduced through "speaking artifacts" such as saddles, swords, bronze tallies, porcelain figurines of camels and grooms, official tallies, Buddhist cave paintings and funerary monuments-contemporary to the reign of the female emperor. This lively and fresh perspective on medieval China will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China.
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