Wu Zetian aka Empress Wu
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Author
Wu Zetian aka Empress Wu
Location
Chang'an (Xi'an)
Dates
624-705
Biography
Empress Wu was a major patron of confucian and Buddhist scholarship, but also composed forty-six of her own poems, recorded in the Quan Tang shi
Works
46 in Quan Tang shi and 61 essays in Quan Tang wen (probably patron only) actually wrote Accompanying the Emperor on a Visit to the Shaolin Temple
Languages
Mandarin
Genres
Autobiographical Poetry
Editions and Translations
Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy. Women Writers of Traditional China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
