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Empress Wu Zetian - LIES
🕑 Added 2024-02-09 18:30:01 +0000 UTCπ Welcome Extra Historians to our Empress Wu Zetian Lies video! Where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into our Wu Zetian Series. With questions like, Is it really possible to drown someone in a vat of wine? Why aren't there witches in Chinese culture? And what ended up happening to those Gaozong brothers?
Recommended Reading for this series:
- Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced, and Murdered Her Way to Becoming a Living God by Jonathan Clements
- Empress Wu Zetian in Fiction and History: Female Defiance in Confucian China, by Dora Shu-Fang Dien
- "Women Rulers in Imperial China" - Keith McMahon
- "'Chen gui' and Other Works Attributed to Empress Wu Zetian," Denis Twitchett
- "Introduction from the Guest Editor: Women's Work, Virtue and Space: Change from Early to Late Imperial China," Angela Sheng
- "Re-gendering Chinese History: Zhao Meiβs Emperor Wu Zetian," Xianlin Song
- "Imagining Matriarchy: 'Kingdoms of Women' in Tang China," Jennifer W. Jay
Missed an Episode?
Part 1 - Hated by Gods & Men | Part 2 - China's Most Famous Murder I Part 3 - Bloody Ghosts & Riot I Part 4 - Woman Behind the Curtain I Part 5 - Boy-Toys and Buddhas
Search for the tag "Wallpaper" to get copies of the art from the episodes!
Comments
Martin Verran
If the Supreme Chicken and the Supreme Pig [which is bafflingly labelled the "King Pig" in Angry Birds, which is confusing because, in my general experience of working with pigs, pigs have no understanding whatsoever of Government, or Governmental systems] formed an alliance, then I imagine humanity, as a species, would be done for. To give you a brief update on our animals, incidentally, on the day your pig video was released, I learned that our elderly sow has just passed away after a short illness; my colleagues are planning to get a new pig later on, and we were making the acquaintance of our new sheep for the first time yesterday; from what I have seen of her, she seems to be a lot more shy than the others and just hangs around with the other sheep.
Gretchen Sand
Why don't you do a series on JR Oppenheimer and why the government failed to warn people in communities nearby Las Cruses about the dangers from the atom bombs he was testing? It's only fair if we all know the impacts on everyone who experienced their destructive power.
Extra History
Thanks! We're always looking to add in some fun new stuff!
Emil Pedersen
Really like the context fairy at the end. Great addition to lies :)
