| | | Type | Year Published |
| Anonymous | The Glory of the Court: Tang Dynasty Empress Wu and Her Times | Book | 1998 |
| Barrett, T. H. | Stupa, Sutra and Sarira in China, c. 656-706 CE | Journal Article | 2001 |
| Barrett, T. H.; Palumbo, Antonello | The Mystery of the Precious Seal of the Ruler and the Origins of Printing | Journal Article | 2007 |
| Bokenkamp, Stephen R. | A Medieval Feminist Critique of the Chinese World Order: The Case of Wu Zhao | Journal Article | 1998 |
| Cao, Jiaqi | Zhongguo wei yi zhi nü huang di: Wu Zetian zheng zhi shi ye zhi yan jiu | Thesis | 1979 |
| Cawthorne, Nigel | Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China | Book | 2007 |
| Chan, Foong Mae | The Hen Who Heralded the Dawn: Leadership Lessons from China's 7th Century Tang Dynasty Empress Wu Zetian (A.D. 624 705) | Thesis | 2009 |
| Ch'en, Hung chu | Wu Tse-t'ien yü Ti Jen-chieh | Book | 1970 |
| Chen, Jinhua | Sarira and Scepter: Empress Wu's Political Use of Buddhist Relics | Journal Article | 2002 |
| Chen, Mengxiong | The Imperial Images in the Poems Written by Du Fu (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Chun, Jinsie K. | I Am Heaven | Book | 1973 |
| Clements, Jonathan | Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God | Book | 2007 |
| Dien, Dora Shu-fang | Empress Wu Zetian in Fiction and in History: Female Defiance in Confucian China | Book | 2003 |
| Doran, Rebecca Esther | Insatiable Women and Transgressive Authority: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China | Thesis | 2011 |
| Drège, Jean-Pierre | Les caractères de l'impératrice Wu Zetian dans les manuscrits de Dunhuang et de Turfan | Journal Article | 1984 |
| Duan, Zhizhuang | Empress Wu Zetian and Hua-yan Buddhist Sect (in Chinese) | | 2014 |
| Eckfeld, Tonia | The Tomb of Li Xian: Posthumous Rehabilitation and Political Legitimacy | Thesis | 1999 |
| Eisenberg, A. | Emperor Gaozong, The Rise of Wu Zetian, and Factional Politics in the Early Tang | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Eoyang, Eugene | Echo and Shadow: Images of Women in Traditional China | Journal Article | 1994 |
| Fitzgerald, C. P. | The Empress Wu | Book | 1968 |
| Forte, Antonino | Mingtang and Buddhist utopias in the history of the astronomical clock: the tower, statue, and armillary sphere constructed by Empress Wu | Book | 1988 |
| Fracasso, Riccardo | The nine tripods of Empress Wu | Book Section | 1988 |
| Guisso, R. W. L. | The Life and Times of the Empress Wu Tse-T'Ien of the T'Ang Dynasty | Thesis | 1975 |
| Guisso, Richard W. L. | The Pheasant and the Dragon Throne: a Study in the Typology of Legitimate Authority | Journal Article | 1976 |
| Guisso, Richard W. L. | Wu Tse-tien and the Politics of Legitimation in Tang China | Book | 1978 |
| Guo, Zhengzhong | Yi dai nü huang: Wu Zetian | Book | 2000 |
| Han, Lin | Interactions between Official Records and Folk Discourses:A Study around the Mysterious Stories about Wu Ze-tian (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Huang, Chi-chiang | Consecrating the Buddha: Legend, Lore, and History of the Imperial Relic - Veneration Ritual in the T'ang Dynasty | Journal Article | 1998 |
| Jay, Jennifer | Wu Zetian he Yekatelina Ershi de bijiao yanjiu [A Comparative study of Wu Zetian and Catherine II.] | Book Section | 1994 |
| Jo-Shui, Chen | Empress Wu and Proto-Feminist Sentiments in T'ang China | Book Section | 1994 |
| Kaneko, Shuichi | The Appraisal of Empress Wu in the Imperial Edicts of the Tang Dynasty (In Japanese) | Journal Article | 2009 |
| Karetzky, Patricia E. | Wu Zetian and Buddhist art of the Tang dynasty | Journal Article | 2002 |
| Kory, Stephan | A Remarkably Resonant and Resilient Tang-Dynasty Augural Stone: Empress Wu's Baotu | Journal Article | 2008 |
| Lepekhova, Elena | Two Asian Empresses and Their Influence on the History and Religion in Tang China and Nara Japan (VII-VIII cc.) | Journal Article | 2017 |
| Lepekhova, Elena | Empresses and Buddhism in Japan in VI-VIII cc | Journal Article | 2016 |
| Li, Christine; Krautwald, Ulja | Der Weg der Kaiserin. Wie Frauen die alten chinesischen Geheimnisse weiblicher Lust und Macht für sich entdecken | Book | 2000 |
| Li, Shi-zhong | A Study of the Historical Value of Qianlin Poetry in Past Dynasties | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Liu, Yu-e | Pomp of Poetic Circles in the Early Tang Dynasty Represented by Empress Wu Ze-tian Poem Monuments on Songshan Mountain (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Marlowe, Britt | Empress Wu Zhao, son of Heaven: Uses of religious patronage and propaganda to secure support and quell dissension during the Tang dynasty | Thesis | 2008 |
| Marlowe, Britt | Empress Wu Zhao, son of Heaven: Uses of religious patronage and propaganda to secure support and quell dissension during the Tang dynasty | Thesis | 2008 |
| Nan, Guo | Analysis of the image of Wu Zetian in junior middle school teaching materials | Journal Article | 2003 |
| Paul, Diana | Empress Wu and the Historians: A Tyrant and Saint of Classical China | Book Section | 1989 |
| Peng, Niya; Yu, Tianyuan; Mills, Albert | Feminist thinking in late seventh-century China: A critical hermeneutics analysis of the case of Wu Zetian | Journal Article | 2015 |
| Qiang, Ning | Gender Politics in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Art: Images of Empress Wu at Longmen and Dunhuang | Journal Article | 2003 |
| Rhee, Jong Min | Empress Wu of the Tang dynasty: Becoming the only female emperor in China | Thesis | 2008 |
| Rothschild, Norman Harry | An Inquiry into Reign Era Changes under Wu Zhao, China’s Only Female Emperor | Journal Article | 2006 |
| Rothschild, Norman Harry | Rhetoric, ritual, and support constituencies in the political authority of Wu Zhao, woman emperor of China | Thesis | 2003 |
| Rothschild, Norman Harry | Wu Zhao's Remarkable Aviary | Journal Article | 2005 |
| Rothschild, Norman Harry | Wu Zhao: China's Only Woman Emperor | Book | 2008 |
| Rothschild, Norman Harry | Beyond Filial Piety: Biographies of Exemplary Women and Wu Zhao's New Paradigm of Political Authority | Journal Article | 2005 |
