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EMPRESS WU OF THE TANG DYNASTY:
BECOMING THE ONLY FEMALE EMPEROR IN CHINA
by
Jong Min Rhee
____________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Jong Min Rhee
Object Description
| Title | Empress Wu of the Tang dynasty: becoming the only female emperor in China |
| Author | Rhee, Jong Min |
| Author email | jongrhee@usc.edu; jmrh7719@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | East Asian Languages & Cultures |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-10-30 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-11-14 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Birge, Bettine |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hayden, George Kim, Namkil |
| Abstract | This thesis presents a re-evaluation of Empress Wu (624-705) of the Tang dynasty, who became the only female emperor in Chinese history. In the Chinese historical texts, evaluations of Empress Wu as an emperor by Confucian historians were generally hostile, but were not consistently so. This study first analyzes and compares descriptions of Empress Wu in primary sources. It investigates how Confucian historiography affected each primary source and how the accounts changed over time, in general becoming more negative. Second, this study examines what components helped Empress Wu become an emperor, including an analysis of Tang social conditions and Empress Wu’s political deeds. Through these analyses, this study attempts to explain how Empress Wu was able to become the only female emperor in Chinese history. |
| Keyword | Empress Wu; Wu Zetian; Wu Zhao; female emperor in China |
| Coverage date | 0624/0705 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1768 |
| Rights | Rhee, Jong Min |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Rhee-2030 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Rhee-2030.pdf |
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| Full text | EMPRESS WU OF THE TANG DYNASTY: BECOMING THE ONLY FEMALE EMPEROR IN CHINA by Jong Min Rhee ____________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Jong Min Rhee |
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