Empress Wu (武后) | 24 Histories

Overview

Empress Wu was an empress and Ruler.

AD 685 to AD 688 垂拱以來
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 56, passage 173
AD 701 大足元年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 56, passages 171, 175
AD 684 武后已稱制
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 159
AD 650 to AD 655 永徽以後
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 56, passages 156, 159

Assumed
AD 684 武后已稱制 · Regency
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 159

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 159

Ceased mass killings
AD 685 to AD 700 垂拱以來 · Political · Actor
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 173
Dazu edict against fabricated pleadings
AD 701 大足元年 · Legal · Authority
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 175
Feared disobedience and ruled by terror
Political · Actor
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 159
Ignored remonstrance
Political · Actor · With Chen Zi'ang (陳子昂)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 172
Rejected remonstrance
Political · Actor · With Zhou Ju (周矩)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 171
Later Zhou secret denunciation system 後周告密之法
Political · Actor · Revived secret denunciation
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 159

New Book of Tang, Chapter 56Volume 56 Treatises 52: Punishment and Law · 3 passages