Well-known Cultural Literates of China: Zhuge Liang / Wu Zetian

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Well-known Cultural Literates of China: Zhuge Liang / Wu Zetian

历史文化名人：诸葛亮 / 武则天

Order No. D7117

ISBN: 7884082055

EAN: 6937475386497

Picture Format: NTSC (good for North American users)

Length: 50 min.

Number of Disc: 1

Language: Chinese with English and Simplified Chinese subtitles

Publisher: Qilu Audio and Video Press

Pub Year: 2007

Price: $12.95

Zhuge Liang, also named Zhuge Kongming, was an outstanding statesman as well as a strategist in the period of Three Kingdoms. When Zhuge Liang was the prime minister of Shu State, he tried his best to make the country prosperous. He judged everybody strictly on his merits. The policies carried out by him had hugely intensified the economical and cultural development.

Wu Zetian is the Empress of Tang Gao Zong, and the only female Emperor in China. After Wu crowned herself, she encouraged the development of imperial examination system and brook routes to choose talents; she rewarded farming and boosted the economy; she observed and made good use of talents and welcomed advices from them. During her reign for nearly half a century, the society remained stable and the economy developed, which led to a golden period of the Chinese feudal dynasty—Kai Yuan prosperous period.

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