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Title	:	Empress
Author	:	Shan Sa
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	May 2nd 2006 by Harper (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China. Fiction

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A ravishing historical novel of one of China's most controversial historical figures: its first and only female emperor, Empress Wu, who emerged in the Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age. In seventh–century China, during the great Tang dynasty, a young girl from the humble Wu clan entered the imperial gynaecium, which housed ten thousand concubines. Inside the Forbidden City, she witnessed seductions, plots, murders, and brazen acts of treason. Propelled by a shrewd intelligence, an extraordinary persistence, and a friendship with the imperial heir, she rose through the ranks to become the first Empress of China. On the one hand, she was a political mastermind who quelled insurrections, eased famine, and opened wide the routes of international trade. On the other, she was a passionate patron of the arts who brought Chinese civilization to unsurpassed heights of knowledge, beauty, and sophistication. And yet, from the moment of her death to the present day, her name has been sullied, her story distorted, and her memoirs obliterated by men taking vengeance on a women who dared become Emperor. For the first time in thirteen centuries, Empress Wu flings open the gates of her Forbidden City and tells her own astonishing tale–revealing a fascinating, complex figure who in many ways remains modern to this day.

Identify Books During Empress

Original Title:	Impératrice
ISBN:	0060817585 (ISBN13: 9780060817589)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Prix des lecteurs du Livre de Poche for Littérature (2005)

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Ratings: 3.7 From 5634 Users | 431 Reviews

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This book took on a whole new take of Chinese History. It portrayed an important historical figure in a personal and never before seen way. Empress Wu was the first woman emperor to ever take the throne. It was traditionally carried on by heirs of the previous emperor, but during the Tang Dynasty, the emperor lacked the capability to successfully control the nation without the help of Wu Ze Tian (the empress). And when the emperor passes away, the only person that the nation could be entrusted

A caveat for grammar snobs: throughout 300+ pages, the word ' capitol' is misspelled. As capital, which of course is something else entirely. You'd think Big Phat Publisher Harper would have caught that, especially given the fad of bashing small imprints and indie published books for any error large or small,but noooo! The blooper repeats all the way to the end. There are a few other typos as well; missing words, and the like. Guess the race-to- the-bottom has spread to line editing at big

The author Shan Sa is a native Chinese woman. She wrote this book in French, and it was then translated into English (and other languages). What amazed me was the beauty of the language Sa used to describe the opulent scenes in an ancient Chinese palace in the 7th century A.D. The historical detail was amazing, including descriptions of life within the palace, rituals and beliefs, day to day life in ancient China, how commoners outside the palace survived, how the government was run, and so on.

My Review: Yesterday, I reviewed a book about this same woman, but it was a narrated history book. This book is a historical novel in which you hear the story through the main character's thoughts and words. There was no reference section at the back of this book as there was in Daughter of Heaven, but the author spent three years researching her subject. This included traveling to the area where this all happened. She is an artist and used her artistic talent of visualizing each setting like a

This was an enigmatic and original piece of work, allowing a historical figure, the Empress Wu to tell her own story, all through her own perspective, including her birth, childhood the many twists and reversals of her climb to power, the bitter clinging to that power and even what happens after her death.About the first half of the book is about her dogged determination to thrive against all the odds- as a cast down nobody sent to the provinces to live with unsympathetic relatives, she has rice

I've a penchant for literature written with an eye on the grander scale of things. Most probably it comes with my preoccupation with critiquing the canon, albeit through far less flimsy bases than prose and universality and all that invisible-hand jazz. In return for paying attention to fields that are not required for the common range of English (history, politics, decolonization, gender dichotomy, all that fun stuff people like to pretend are subsidiary instead of the power generators of

I announced to the world the beginning of my dynasty, the Zhou dynasty. Its peace and prosperity would be inaugerated by the Era of the Celestial Mandate. Cheers from officials and shouts of joy from the people rang out.Empress is a novel about the life of Empress Wu, a fascinating woman who rose from the ranks of an almost commoner, to one of the 10,000 concubines during the Tang dynasty, and finally, to the title of Emperor herself. She was the first and only female emperor in Chinese