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Red Turban warrior fighting a Mongol. The breakup of the Yuan armies after the dismissal of Toghto permitted the Red Turban movement to revive on the North China plain. At Po-chou in 1355 Liu Fu-t’ung proclaimed Han Lin-erh emperor of a restored Sung dynasty. For almost two years the rebel movement was buffeted by the […]

Seven hundred years before young Scythian women died in battle and were buried with weapons as grave goods, General Fu Hao (ca. 1200 BCE) flourished and fought to defend the Shang dynasty in Bronze Age China (ca. 1600–046 BCE)—the earliest woman warrior I know of for whom we have a name and a story. She […]