Wu Zetian, China’s Only Empress
Wǔ Zétiān 武則天 (625-705) is the only woman in Chinese history to have held the imperial throne. Although other women held the position of regent as empress dowager (皇太后 húangtàihòu), none of them truly took up the throne of the Son of Heaven (天子 Tiānzǐ).
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