I thought the emperor had fairly good features, but that modern pic of him looks hot
! I found him such a good actor.
No, she wasn't necessarily good at medicine. Just a good researcher
. She said so herself, when she gained an apparent reputation for being a great doctor. Although, a later bit when she was putting needles in the emperor's head seems to suggest a certain level of mastery. Not very coherent though with the lack of time spent learning medicine. I think medicine and knowledge of the human body are one of the few areas where one cannot be innately skilled.
No, she wasn't necessarily good at military strategy either. She's phenomenally astute, which tides her over. She more or less won a political war, not a military war. If MLJ was put in charge of an army fighting another army, then we could see if she was a good military commander.
She can read people very accurately, but I accord that to her very refined intuition. If MLJ was truly versed with psychology, she would've been aware of personal feelings and situational emotions. She got angry more than once, when it would've been wiser to keep her cool.
Well, someone like MLJ could've existed back then. Just that she was a woman, and men write history...about men, fancy that
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Well, the guy marrying 3 woman sort of detracts from the theme of the story IMO. We have this story of this fabulous woman, deserved to be respected as a successful person in her own right, ready to resist conformity to traditions that confine women to a meaningless existence, yet at the end of the day, she still has to share a husband!
The rule was, a man could and even encouraged to have '3 wives and 4 concubines', while it was social death for a woman to even think about remarrying if her betrothed happens to die on her. That's one blatant case of gender inequality.
To have a story like MLJ's end with gender inequality is one big contraindication, methinks.