The World of Wu Zhao

The World of Wu ZhaoThe World of Wu Zhao is an annotated translation of Zhang Zhuos collection of miscellany, Court and Country, that offers a lively, folksy and novel perspective of the empire of Wu Zhao, Chinas first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China.

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