In lieu of posting anything original, today I point you in the direction of Hark, A Vagrant!, indisputably the best history-based webcomic on the interwebs. It is almost always funny, and although Kate Beaton rarely writes comics on Chinese history, her comic on Wu Zetian is pretty great:
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Yes, in internet years, this borders on prehistoric. But there’s a chance you haven’t seen it, and if you haven’t (and you know who Wu Zetian was), you should. (She’s got a good one on an amusing moment in Japanese history, too).
As a sidenote, did you know that Wu Zetian’s face is purportedly immortalized in the Longmen Caves near Luoyang? The caves, or at least some of them, were carved during her reign and the story goes that she demanded the central statue’s face be modeled after her own. So, apparently, she looked something like this:
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Pretty old strip…
But thanks for showing me her new website, my last link died. Very clever artist btw, Canadian too <3
That reminds me of lengthy Tianya posts about who would win in a fight, Zetian Wu Hou or Cixi Taihou.
My vote= Wu Zetian
Yeah, hands down.