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The following is a list of empresses and queens consort of China. China has periodically been divided into kingdoms as well as united under empires, resulting in consorts titled both queen and empress. The empress title could also be given posthumously.
Empress of China, also known as Chinese Queen, was a three-masted, square-rigged sailing ship of 360 tons, [3] initially built in 1783 for service as a privateer. [5] After the Treaty of Paris brought a formal end to the American Revolutionary War, the vessel was refitted for commercial purposes.
Samuel Shaw (October 2, 1754 – May 30, 1794) was an American Revolutionary War army officer and diplomat, who served as the first United States consul to China.. Shaw was born in Boston to Francis and Sarah (Burt) Shaw.
Euless (/ ˈ j uː l ɪ s / YOO-liss) is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth. Euless is part of the Mid-Cities region between Dallas and Fort Worth. In 2020 Census, the population of Euless was 61,032. [5] The population of the city increased by 19.02% in 10 years.
Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China. Oxford, England: One World Publications. ISBN 978-1-85168-530-1. Clements, Jonathan (2007). Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God. Stroud: Sutton. ISBN 978-0-7509-3961-4.
An empress dowager who lived through the reigns of at least two subsequent emperors would be called grand empress dowager (太皇太后; tàihuángtàihòu). The other imperial consorts of the former emperor would be addressed as dowager (太; tài ) according to their rank, but it was not required.
Yang Xianrong (羊獻容) (died 13 May 322 [5]), posthumous name (as honored by Former Zhao) Empress Xianwen (獻文皇后, literally "the wise and civil empress"), was an empress—uniquely in the history of China, for two different dynastic empires and two different emperors.
The Empress of China (simplified Chinese: 武媚娘传奇; traditional Chinese: 武媚娘傳奇; pinyin: Wǔ Mèiniáng chuánqí) is a 2014 Chinese television series based on events in the 7th and 8th-century Tang dynasty, starring producer Fan Bingbing as the titular character Wu Zetian—the only female emperor (empress regnant) in Chinese history.