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Good reads to stay ahead.
(From New Straits Times (Malaysia))
BOOKS designed to help employees get ahead in the game are among the most popular titles in bookstores. We took a look at some interesting books now on the shelves: THE IMPERIAL MIND: The Fascinating and Deeply Strategic Mind of Empress Wu Zetian By Foo Check Teck Horizon Books RM38, pp214 BORN in 625 AD during the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian began her career at the age of 13, when she became a concubine of Emperor Tai Tsung. Although women led relatively empowered lives at the time, they were largely excluded from politics, which was controlled by the all-male Imperial Court. Lady Wu proved to be the exception; from her lowly position she defied the odds and climbed the palace ranks, eventually becoming the only female emperor in China's 5,000 years of recorded history.
How did she do it? Dr Foo Check Teck, who has written several books about the study of strategy, deconstructs Lady Wu's rise to the top and provides a case study for contemporary women looking to get ahead in their male-dominated fields. ..TX: FINANCIAL SUTRA FOR MALAYSIANS: Your Personal Guide to Wealth Creation By B.J. Ooi and Andy Ong AFPJ Pte Ltd RM29.50, pp148 IF job satisfaction is the yin component of a career, then making money is its yang. Here Ooi and Ong, who is the managing editor of the Asia Planning Journal, provide a ...
- Good reads to stay ahead, NEW STRAITS TIMES-MANAGEMENT TIMES.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 5, 2003 700+ words
...Strategic Mind of Empress Wu Zetian By Foo Check Teck Horizon Books RM38, pp214 BORN in 625 AD during the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian began her career at the age...By Rameshwari Ramachandra Horizon Books RM38, pp132 A SUCCESSFUL...
- Lost horizon.(Books)
- Newspaper article from: Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM) October 24, 1999 700+ words
Byline: David Steinberg Of the Journal CAPTION(S): Photographer chronicled life in Mexican-American village just before it disappeared "Chavez Ravine: 1949, A Los Angeles Story" by Don Normark Chronicle Books, $29.95, 144 pp. One day a man took his camera and walked up a hill in search of a nice,
- Touring the horizon.(books, arts & manners)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: National Review Barnett, Thomas P.M. June 2, 2008 700+ words
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, by Parag Khanna (Random House, 496 pp., $29) PARAG KHANNA's The Second World is a great book that deserves wide reading but not wide debate. Some incorrectly position Khanna between Fukuyama's End of History and Huntington's Clash of
- Beijing rejects proposed excavation of China's only empress' tomb.
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports July 25, 2006 700+ words
...excavation of the 1,300-year-old tomb of Wu Zetian, the only empress in Chinese history...Province, Qianling is the joint tomb of Wu Zetian, who remained in power for 50 years...contains the bodies of two emperors. Wu Zetian was buried in the tomb 22 years after...
- Teaching about women in China and Japan: a thematic approach. (Women of the...
- Magazine article from: Social Education Reese, Lyn January 1, 2003 700+ words
...of becoming "like a hen crowing" Years after the reign of Wu Zetian (Tang Dynasty, 625-705 C.E.), China's only female...groups. Chinese Buddhism was at its height during the reign of Wu Zetian, who promoted the religion and even justified her rule by...
- People's enemy? Feminist hero?(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Tsang, Lori July 1, 2004 700+ words
...the most infamous Chinese empress since the Tang Dynasty's Wu Zetian (625-705), who supposedly killed her own child in a (successful) scheme to destroy a rival. But Wu Zetian came to power during the peak of the Tang Dynasty, a period...
- Culture & Society: Chinese Films Overwhelm Local Television Channels.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire September 22, 2003 700+ words
...of their own country. Small children can even tell in detail legendary figures in Chinese history such as Qin Shuihuang, Wu Zetian an Han Wudi while being ignorant about Vietnam's national hero Tran Huong Dao. The youth, meanwhile, are attracted by...
- Shaolin Temple abbot in hot water over gift of golden robe.
- Newspaper article from: South China Morning Post June 10, 2009 700+ words
...Zen Buddhism, and would instead see that it was passed on to future generations. This is a tradition dating back to when Wu Zetian (AD624-705), the empress regnant who founded the Zhou dynasty, bestowed a robe on Abbot Huineng. Wang Baolin , director...
- China's only ruling empress.(Wu Zhao)
- Magazine article from: Calliope Ji, Zhang Siggins, Jeff November 1, 2003 700+ words
...D. 690, she was confident enough in her own power to remove her son from the throne. She then declared herself Empress Wu Zetian--the ruler of a new dynasty, the Zhou. Determined to establish a new governing order, Empress Wu defeated the old aristocrats...
- Time line.(Tang dynasty emperors)(Illustration)
- Magazine article from: Calliope November 1, 2003 700+ words
...POSTHUMOUS (TEMPLE) NAME Li Yuan 618-626 Gaozu Li Shimin 626-649 Taizong Li Zhi 649-683 Gaozong Wu Zhao 689-705 Wu Zetian (Empress Wu) Li Longji 712-756 Xuanzong * * Xuanzong is also known as Ming huang, "Brilliant Emperor"