The Comparative Study Of Khitan Dowager Xiao And Northern Song Dowager Liu

The particular time that Liao, song, Xia, jin dynasty exist side by sides the continued development of china's feudal society, and is also a special period that all nationalities combined once again. Khitan, Party Items and Jurchen have established political power one after another,and set their face against Central Plains dynasty. Forming another southern and northern dynasty. This period filled with talents.Among them two women are particular striking, they are khitan's empress dowager xiao and northern song dynasty's empress dowager liu. Whether hisorians or literary scholars,including the works of modern films and TV series have adopted the materials about them, for example, empress dowager xiao whose military ability was embodied most vividly in the "legend", but she was described as an insidious viciousness. Empress dowager liu is famous for "leopard cat changed for prince"; so many people turn their nose up at both of them.In fact, this is a hyperbole skill result in the "deformation" of them and the "inconsistency" with the true history. This paper uses comparative means to restore their true face, and analyses their contribution during this period of history, thus being of benefit to study the two prominent female political figures and this period history.On the base of previous researches, this paper with regard to both of the female politicians'growth process, political process, vertical blind process, and the stage of like-sustaining processes and so on, makes a comparative study. Full-text is divided into five parts:the first chapter describes the process of them grow thing from ordinary women to the queens.In this process,by describing their hardships and efforts in the palace to further analyses the reasons for successes.Besides, we can see that the study and practice of this phase gathered enough materials for them to govern the future.Second chapter describes their experiences from the queen to the empress dowager. Analyzing the reason why they become successful from the scenes to the front of the stage. In this paper, I describe their previous phase of study and the situation that they conduct political practice with the authority of the emperor; their role at this stage, as well as their preparations for the later regent. Third chapter discusses their political economics, cultural, diplomatic stratagem, thus analyzing the affect of their efforts to train their successors and their continued political life situations; fifth chapter briefly discusses some of their limitations, but it illustrates nobody is perfect although they are great, but after all, they are also a number of hundreds of thousand of people.They go further ailed, and do more what many people can not do.Therefore, they become china's rare female politicians during the north-south confrontation and even the history of china.