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Here rendered into English for the first time, these chapters provide important insights into the worlds of palace women and court politics, while revealing muc

This volume completes Keith McMahon’s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor’s plural wives

This book analyzes the evolving interaction between court and media from an understudied perspective. Eight case studies focus on different European Empress con

"Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912 accompanies the exhibition of the same title organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the

Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating histo