# Wu Zhao

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La Hacienda & San Miguel Mexican Grill & Bar- Jesus Rodriguez

In this week’s edition of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast, we’re at San Miguel Mexican Grill and Bar in Fayetteville talking with Jesus Rodriguez... but FIRST?!?! FOOD NEWS! Wu Zhao finally opens in Bentonville. We’ll hear from owners Barry Furuseth and Vincent Lim. The 9th Downtown …

She Killed, Conquered, and Claimed the Throne #HtH WU ZETIAN

In this episode of Hoes Throughout History, we dive deep into the unhinged, unstoppable, and undeniably iconic life of Empress Wu Zetian — the first and only female emperor of China. From concubine to supreme ruler of the Tang dynasty, Wu played the political game like a damn chess master while rew…

Office Hours Ep. 10: Now With Video!

Coming in hot with another laid-back episode of Office Hours, but this time we have video! We are indeed humans! In this episode, we go over all the corrections and questions from our Frida Kahlo series in addition to chatting about our upcoming series on Wu Zhao.

Wu Zhao Part 1: A Great and Terrible Honor

It's time for a brand new series, and this time we're headed further back in time than we ever have before: the 7th century! For series 14 of The Biographers, we're covering Wu Zhao -- the only woman to ever reign as the Emperor of China. At just 13 years old, Wu Zhao was recruited into the Emperor…

Columbus House Brewery – Carey Ashworth

In week’s edition of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast, we’re at Columbus House Brewery in Fayetteville talking with co-owner Carey Ashworth – but before we talk with her?!?! FOOD NEWS!! Bentoville Food Theater is FINALLY open! Onyx at the Preserve is soft opening- KIND OF. We’ll tell …

Wu Zhao Part 2: How to Train Your Concubine

In part two of our series on Wu Zhao, we take a look at the earliest days of her arrival into the royal harem of the Emperor, and what curriculum needed to be studied as a concubine. Zhao's time in the harem would first last ten years, but after the Emperor she served passed away, she would be shut…

Wu Zhao Part 3: The Two Sages

In part three of our series on the infamous Wu Zhao, we finally get to see her long-planned rise to Empress, and what sequence of events led her there! Due to some health complications, the Emperor would soon rely on Zhao to run the day to day governmental operations of China, and despite the medie…

Wu Zhao Part 4: No Half Measures

In part four of our series on Wu Zhao, we watch the continued rise to power of the only female emperor in the history of China. With Emperor Gaozong's health declining to the point of his ultimate demise, Zhao finds various means to push her sons away from the throne and establish herself as the de…

Wu Zetian | The Concubine Who Became the Only Female Emperor in China and Left Her Gravestone Blank

Her birth name was Wu Zhao. She entered the imperial palace at fourteen as a fifth rank concubine. When the emperor died she had her head shaved and was sent to a convent. She came back. She manoeuvred her way to empress in 655. After her husband suffered a stroke in 660 she effectively ran the Ch…

Wu Zhao Part 5: The Fall of a Dynasty

In the conclusion to our series on the infamous Wu Zhao, we discover why the only female emperor in Chinese history, relinquished the throne. Her reign as emperor would only last 15 years, and though she would have several opportunities to extend her dynasty past a single member, her stubborn natur…