Empress Dowager Wang

Empress Dowager Wang may refer to a number of Chinese empresses dowager:

  • Empress Dowager Wang Yuanji, empress dowager during the Jin Dynasty (265-420)
  • Empress Dowager Wang Baoming, empress dowager of Southern Qi
  • Empress Dowager Wang (Xiao Dong), empress dowager of the Liang Dynasty
  • Empress Dowager Wang (Xianzong), empress dowager of the Tang Dynasty, mother of Emperor Xianzong
  • Empress Dowager Wang (Jingzong), empress dowager of the Tang Dynasty, mother of Emperor Jingzong
  • Empress Dowager Wang (Rui), empress dowager of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Wu

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