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Empress Dowager Yang Zhi – The tragic victim of imperial politics who died of starvation

Empress Dowager Yang Zhi was Emperor Wu’s second empress. She has often been portrayed as a “tragic victim of imperial politics.”[1] She is most famous for being locked in a power struggle against Empress Jia Nanfeng.[2] Empress Dowager Yang Zhi lost and was forced to die of starvation.[3] Therefore, Empress Dowager Yang Zhi was one of the Jin [read more]