Celestial Women
Celestial Women This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Although restrictions on women's participation in politics increased…
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Celestial Women
This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Although restrictions on women's participation in politics increased dramatically after Empress Wu in the Tang, the author follows the strong and active women, of both high and low rank, who continued to appear. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor's relations with others in the palace.
They influenced the emperor's relationships with other women and enhanced their aura and that of the royal house with their acts of artistic and religious patronage. They counseled emperors, ghostwrote for them, oversaw succession when they died, and dominated them when they were weak. Dynastic history ended in
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