The empress in the Pepper Chamber : Zhao Feiyan in history and fiction /
"Zhao Feiyan (45-1 BCE), the second empress appointed by Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty (207 BCE-220 CE), was born in slavery and trained in the performing arts, a background that made her appointment as empress highly controversial. Subsequent persecution by her political enemies eventually...
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2937323 |
Table of Contents:
- The Empress in the Pepper Chamber
- The Scandalous Tale of Zhao Feiyan
- Zhao Feiyan's Biography in Historical Sources
- Interpreting The Scandalous Tale
- Gendering Empress Zhao
- Concluding Remarks.