Empress Wang (Southern Ming)
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Letter from the Empress Dowager Helena Wang (the "honorary mother" of the Yongli Emperor) to the Pope with a request for help. November 1650. Latin translation by Michał Boym.
Empress Xiaogangkuang (died 1662) was a Chinese empress consort of the Southern Ming, empress to the Yongli Emperor. She converted to Roman Catholicism and adopted the name Anne.[1]
References[]
- ^ Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911
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- Ming dynasty empresses
- Southern Ming
- 1662 deaths
- People from Suzhou
- Chinese Roman Catholics
- Converts to Roman Catholicism
- 17th-century Chinese women
- 17th-century Chinese people
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