The Empress of China 武则天 Wu Zetian
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[color=red]cast[/color]
Fan Bingbing (in the titular role from the energetic, playful younger version Wu Mei Niang to the legendary Empress Wu),
Zhang Fengyi,
Zhang Ting,
Aarif Lee,
Wu Xiubo
Kathy Chau
Janine Chang
Li Jie
Li Liren
Li Chen
Viann Zhang
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Fan Bingbing will portray Empress Wu’s wide stretch of years, the actress herself is eager to rise up to the challenge. “An actress who does not want to play Wu Zetian is not a good actress,” she said. “Wu Zetian must be the dream of every actress.”
The Empress of China recently unveiled its first character posters, which depicted the cast dressed regally and posed in front of a floral and natural backdrops. Empress Wang and Consort Xiao, both romantic rivals to Wu Zetian, will be portrayed by mainland Chinese actresses Kira Shi (施詩) and Viann Zhang (張馨予) respectively, while imperial consort and poetess Xu Hui is played by Taiwanese actress Janine Chang (張鈞甯).
Mainland Chinese actor Wu Xiubo (吳秀波) makes an appearance as Zhang Jianzhi, one of the officials who brought about the end of Empress Wu’s reign. Actor Li Chen (李晨) will also have a guest appearance as Wu Zetian’s first love
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[color=red]synopsis[/color]
It tells the story of a simple girl, Wu Mei Niang who struggled in life, love and rose to become China’s only female emperor who actually ruled the whole country for almost half a century. It is said that production cost close to 300 million to recreate the Tang Dynasty.
It marks the return of Fan Bingbing on the small screen following The Last Night of Madam Chin (2009), as well as the return of legendary actor Zhang Fengyi who was last seen on The First Emperor (2007) who’s known for his role in Farewell My Concubine. Gao Yi chun directs.
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[color=red]H i s t o r y o f C h i n a[/color]
Wu Zetian
"Wu Chao"
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wu.
Wu Zetian
Only Female Emperor in Chinese history
Female Emperor of Zhou Dynasty
Reign 16 October 690[1][2] – 22 February 705[3][4]
Predecessor none, Emperor Ruizong as Emperor of Tang Dynasty
Successor dynasty abolished, Emperor Zhongzong as Emperor of Tang Dynasty
Empress consort of Tang Dynasty
Tenure 655–683
Predecessor Empress Wang
Successor Empress Wei
Spouse Emperor Taizong of Tang
Emperor Gaozong of Tang
Issue
Li Hong, Emperor Yizong
Li Xian, Crown Prince Zhanghuai
Princess Si of Anding
Li Xian, Emperor Zhongzong
Li Dan, Emperor Ruizong
Princess Taiping
Full name
Family name: Wu (武)
Given name: Mei (媚),[5] later Zhao (曌/瞾), possibly originally Zhao (照)[6]
Posthumous name
Short: Empress Zetian (則天皇后)[7]
Full: Empress Zetian Shunsheng (則天順聖皇后)[8]
Temple name
None[9]
House Wu (by birth)
House of Li (by marriage)
Father Wu Shihuo, Duke Ding of Ying
Mother Lady Yang
Born 17 February 624[10]
Lizhou, Sichuan Province, Tang Dynasty
Died 16 December 705 (aged 81)[11]
Luoyang, Tang Dynasty
Burial 706
Qianling Mausoleum
History of China
ANCIENT
Xia Dynasty c. 2100–c. 1600 BCE
Shang Dynasty c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE
Zhou Dynasty c. 1045–256 BCE
Western Zhou
Eastern Zhou
Spring and Autumn
Warring States
IMPERIAL
Qin Dynasty 221–206 BCE
Han Dynasty 206 BCE – 220 CE
Western Han
Xin Dynasty
Eastern Han
Three Kingdoms 220–280
Wei, Shu and Wu
Jin Dynasty 265–420
Western Jin 16 Kingdoms
304–439
Eastern Jin
Southern and Northern Dynasties
420–589
Sui Dynasty 581–618
Tang Dynasty 618–907
(Second Zhou 690–705)
5 Dynasties and
10 Kingdoms
907–960 Liao Dynasty
907–1125
Song Dynasty
960–1279
Northern Song W. Xia
Southern Song Jin
Yuan Dynasty 1271–1368
Ming Dynasty 1368–1644
Qing Dynasty 1644–1911
MODERN
Republic of China 1912–1949
People's Republic
of China
1949–present Republic of
China on Taiwan
1949–present
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Wu Zetian (Wu Tse-tien; simplified Chinese: 武则天; traditional Chinese: 武則天; pinyin: Wǔ Zétiān; Wade–Giles: Wu3 Tse2-t'ien1) (c. 625 – 705),[12] also known as Wu Zhao (Wu Chao; Chinese: 武曌; pinyin: Wǔ Zhào; Wade–Giles: Wu3 Chao4), Wu Hou (Chinese: 武后; pinyin: Wǔ Hòu; Wade–Giles: Wu3 Hou4), in Tang Dynasty, Tian Hou (天后), and in English as Empress Consort Wu, or by the deprecated term,[13] "Empress Wu", was a Chinese sovereign, who ruled officially under the name of her self-proclaimed "Zhou Dynasty", from 690 to 705. She was the only female emperor in the Chinese feudal dynasties spanning more than 4,000 years. However, she had previous imperial positions under both Emperor Taizong of Tang and his son Emperor Gaozong of Tang, of the Tang Dynasty of China. Wu was a concubine of Emperor Taizong; after his death she married his successor and 9th son, Emperor Gaozong, officially becoming Gaozong's furen (variously translated as "empress", "wife", or "first consort") in 655, although having considerable political power previous to this. After Gaozong's debilitating stroke in 660, Wu Zetian ruled as effective sovereign until 705.[14] She is the only woman to rule China in her own right.
The importance to history of Wu Zetian's period of political and military leadership includes the major expansion of the Chinese empire, extending it far beyond its previous territorial limits, deep into Central Asia, and the completion of the conquest of the upper Korean Peninsula. Within China, besides the more direct consequences of her struggle to gain and maintain supreme power, Wu's leadership resulted in important effects in regards to social class in Chinese society and in relation to state support for Taoism, Buddhism, education, and literature. Wu Zetian also had a monumental impact in regard to the statuary of the Longmen Grottoes and the "Wordless Stele" at the Qianling Mausoleum, as well as the construction of some major buildings and bronze castings which no longer survive. Despite these important aspects of her reign, together with the suggestions of modern scholarship as to the long-term effects of some of her innovations in governance, much of the attention to Wu Zetian has been to her gender, as the anomalous female supreme sovereign of a unified Chinese empire, holding during part of her lifetime the title of Huangdi.
Besides her career as a political leader, Wu Zetian also had an active family life. Although family relationships sometimes became problematic, Wu Zetian was the mother of three sons who served stints as emperors, and one of her grandsons became the famous emperor Xuanzong of the restored Tang Dynasty, ruling during its "Golden Age".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian
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