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RMS Empress of China was an ocean liner built in 1890-1891 by Naval Construction & Armament Co., Barrow, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP). [1] This ship—the first of three CP vessels to be named Empress of China [2] —regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between the west coast of Canada and the Far East until she struck an underwater reef and sank in Tokyo harbour in 1911.
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.
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.
RMS Empress of Asia; RMS Empress of Australia (1919) RMS Empress of Britain (1905) RMS Empress of Canada (1920) RMS Empress of Canada (1928) RMS Empress of Canada (1960) RMS Empress of China (1890) RMS Empress of England; RMS Empress of France (1913) RMS Empress of France (1928) RMS Empress of India (1890) RMS Empress of Japan (1890) RMS ...
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.
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.
Xu Hui (Chinese: 徐惠; 627–650) was a female Chinese poet, "the first of all women poets of the Tang, an individual scarcely even noted in traditional literary history... but the only one of the thirty-plus 'empresses and consorts'...given biographies in the official Tang histories to have any of her own writings quoted there."
The Chen dynasty of China had five empresses consort in its 32-year history: Empress Zhang Yao'er (r. 557–559), the wife of Emperor Wu. [1] [better source needed] Empress Shen Miaorong (r. 559–566), the wife of Emperor Chen. Empress Wang (r. 566–568), the wife of Emperor Fei. Empress Liu (r. 569–582), the wife of Emperor Xuan.