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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    “We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside our skin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes—and knows it.”
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