Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Concubinage, Concubine Qi, Wu Zetian, Chani, Empress Dowager Cixi, Hagar, Ranks of Imperial Consorts in China, Empress Dowager Hu, Lady Jessica, Shangguan Wan'er, Empress Wei Zifu, Emetullah Rabia Gulnu Sultan, Turhan Hatice, Shangguan Yi, Empress Dowager Bo, Yodo-dono, Daji, Empress Erzhu Ying'e, Fragrant Concubine, Tirimujgan Sultan, Amina Mihr-i Shah, Feng Xiaolian, Rabia Sultan, Consort Zhang Lihua, Imperial Consort Jin, Hatice Muazzez Sultan, Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyat, Mihri ah Valide Sultan, Himiltrude, Consort Chen Miaodeng, Amina Gul-Bahar, Consort Pan, Bezmialem, Imperial Consort Zhen, Saliha Sultan, Chen Yuanyuan, Lady Nij, Saliha Dila ub Sultan, Sultana Pertevniyal, Pilegesh, Consort Ban, Rahime Perestu, Tan Yuling, Tora Mosterstong, Consort Chen Farong, Handmaiden, ehsuvar Sultan, Baosi, Takano no Niigasa, evkefza Sultan, Bilhah, Consort Dun, Gulustu, Zenobia, Consort Pan Yunu, Consort Li, Nakayama Yoshiko, Kitsuno, Gulcemal Sultan, Malusha, Imperial Concubine Chun, Zuo Fen, Monique Vinh Thuy, Huarui Furen, Consort Chen Guinu, Temple of the Five Concubines, Regina, Haseki, Matsudaira Saku, Matsudaira Kiyo, Lady Chaa, Lady Lingiya. Excerpt: Wu Zetian (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: W Zeti n, Mandarin pronunciation: ) (17 February 624 - 16 December 705), personal name Wu Zhao ( ), often referred to as Tian Hou ( ) during the Tang Dynasty and Empress Consort Wu ( ) in later times, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Empress Regnant. As de facto ruler of China first through her husband and her sons from 665 to 690, not unprecedented in Chinese history, she then broke all precedents when she founded her own dynasty in 690, the Zhou ( ) (interrupting the Tang Dynasty), and ruled personally under the name Sacred and Divine Empress Regnant ( ) and variat...