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Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
Empress Dowager Ling was not a warrior, but she embraced martial symbols of her own power that were available to women in Taghbach culture but not in Chinese culture. For example, she was an ...
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Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
(THE CONVERSATION) In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she ...