The only empress in the Chinese history!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Statue of seated Buddha that the Empress Wu Zetian had carved into the 1000 Buddha Caves at Luoyang, China. The face is suppose to resemble the empress.

      Wu Zetian was the only empress in the Chinese history. There is an introduction about the Wu Zetian.

The Tang dynasty (618-906 AD) was a time of relative freedom for women. They did not bind their feet nor lead submissive lives. It was a time in which a number of exceptional women contributed in the areas of culture and politics. So it is no surprise that Wu, born into a rich and noble family, was taught to play music, write, and read the Chinese classics. By thirteen years of age she was known for her wit, intelligence, and beauty, and was recruited to the court of Emperor Tai Tsung. She soon became his favorite concubine. But she also had eyes for his son, Kao Tsung.
When the emperor died and Kao Tsung took over, Wu was now twenty seven years old. In time she became a favorite concubine of the new emperor, giving birth to the sons he wanted. As mother of the future emperor of China, she grew in power. She managed to eliminate Kao Tsung's wife, Empress Wang, by accusing her of killing Wu's newborn daughter. Kao Tsung believed Wu, and replaced Empress Wang to marry the up and coming Wu Zetian.

      In the Chinese history, there was only one female empress in the history. It showed that women were less important than men. In the past, when a woman was pregnant, everyone wanted to have a son rather than daughter. They thought that having a daughter just like help other people to rear their daughter because woman will get married and go to husband's house to live. They will think son was much better than daughter. Woman and man did not have the equal status in the past. Women did not need to study, go to school and also recognize words, they just needed to do housework, needless work and take care of children. Hence, there is a proverb:" Mediocrity is a woman's virtue." This proverb means that woman does not know anything is much better. In my opinion, it is difficult to have an female empress in the past because woman is not equal than man and most of women do not learn anything. If we say that she is a kind of dragon lady, no one will be doubt. When I first time knew there was a female empress in the history, I was surprised at it and also curious why she could become the only female empress and how could she do it. She was helping her son to control, it ruled in place of the emperor. She also collected all of power and authority to herself and then she became the only one female empress in the history. She broke the female stereotype in the past such as she learned everything and became a female empress. She is a perfect example of dragon lady and people must be respect her and follow her rules. It is not an easy work, but she did it and let me feel she was successful and make me admire.


There is a film about Wu Zetian:

Word Cited:

      "Empress Wu Zetian." Female Hero: (Women in World History Curriculum). N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2013.

What is Dragon Lady???

There is an article which gives the definition of the Dragon Lady:

"Dragon Lady refers to an Asian woman who is perceived as seductive, desirable but at the time she is untrustworthy. Movies from the early century have been successful in portraying this stereotypical version of the Asian woman. "Daughter of Fu Manchu" is one of them. Scheming, treacherous and dangerous, the Dragon Lady is the female version of the Asian bad guy, only with a slightly different approach to defeat her enemies. She has the power to hypnotize her male rivals, gains trust by seducing them, and when they least expect it, she rids of them through sabotage or backstabbing (Espiritu)."

    Dragon Lady is a word that describes the Asian American woman who is dominant and as same as ability or excellent ability than man. It is difficult to say this word is a compliment or insulting word. Therefore, dragon Lady also brings pros and cons to the Asian American woman. 

Pros: 1. Proving woman has as same as ability or better ability than man
           2. Woman do not need to rely on man. It means woman is independent.
           3. People will not have sexual stereotype which is woman does not go to school to    
               study or woman cannot become competitive.


Cons: 1. Dragon Lady has meaning to discriminate the Asian American woman because 
                this word means that woman is fierce, powerful and dominant. 
            2. Man usually does not like a girl who is a dragon lady. A dragon lady is difficult to 
                get married because man will be afraid of woman has excellent ability than him.
            3. This word maybe will let Asian American woman feels shame and scare to face
                people.

    Dragon Lady uses commonly in the world. At the beginning, dragon lady mean woman who has dragon tattoo in her skin. People incorrectly relay an erroneous message from past to now. Nowadays, dragon lady describes woman who has great ability, dominant attitude and powerful manner than man. They do not need to rely on man to live their life anymore; maybe they will have better life than man. Woman also can become a superwoman and woman has able to go out to work and has her own career such as Cher Wang who is a owner of HTC. People is respect her and they will not belittle her because she is a woman. In my opinion, dragon lady  this word actually brings some fair to woman and making people respect to woman.


Here is a video which is talking about Dragon Lady: