“Kowtow to your female Empress, first kowtow. second kowtow, third kowtow!” That high pitch female voice rang shiver down the spines of the male officials as their knees instantly turned soft. With that sense of fear, they sank and prostrated themselves before the female Empress as they trembled in crawling underneath their blue silk imperial robes. This is not a fact book, but a book inspired by actual Empresses of the past in that of Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty and Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty during the Dynasty Period of China. It is a fictional account of an Empress from those periods of time. I have been intrigued by the facts that these two female Empresses were not only able to survive but also flourished under the glaring eyes of their male counterparts since at a young age. It is almost laughable if not funny that male officials with beards and mustaches had to crawl to a smooth faced, female Empress sitting high on her throne. While the female Empress looked fragile and any of those male officials could possibly take her down with one or two blows, the slim shouldered Empress had the massive Imperial Jade Stamp in her grasp, and held onto it as if it was her life. With the imperial army only crawling for, and obeying, the one who held that imperial stamp, the male officials including the High Prince had to accept the unthinkable fact that they had to subserviently kneel, crawl and kowtow to the Empress; a woman, sitting on her throne while they were crawling down below her. And it was not only the administrative male officials crawled before the two Empresses, even fighting Generals were commanded by the Empresses as to crawl before them. It is intriguing at best when thinking about it that the two female Empresses were able in the past in commanding the male officials and Generals to kneel, prostrate and then kowtow to them one kowtow after another as the two Empresses sat on their thrones grinning, receiving the kowtow from the male officials crawling down at their feet!