| | | Type | Year Published |
| Bokenkamp, Stephen R. | A Medieval Feminist Critique of the Chinese World Order: The Case of Wu Zhao | Journal Article | 1998 |
| Kory, Stephan | A Remarkably Resonant and Resilient Tang-Dynasty Augural Stone: Empress Wu's Baotu | Journal Article | 2008 |
| Li, Shi-zhong | A Study of the Historical Value of Qianlin Poetry in Past Dynasties | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Tezel, Aybike Seyma | A Study on China's Only Female Ruler Wu Ze Tian | Thesis | 2009 |
| Rothschild, Norman Harry | An Inquiry into Reign Era Changes under Wu Zhao, China’s Only Female Emperor | Journal Article | 2006 |
| Nan, Guo | Analysis of the image of Wu Zetian in junior middle school teaching materials | Journal Article | 2003 |
| Toshio, Araki | Asian Female Sovereigns and the Empress Wu | Journal Article | 2003 |
| Sevillano-López, D. | Aurel Stein: hallazgo y dispersión de la Biblioteca de Dunhuang. El caso de los manuscritos del reinado de Wu Zetian | Book Section | 2017 |
| Rothschild, Norman Harry | Beyond Filial Piety: Biographies of Exemplary Women and Wu Zhao's New Paradigm of Political Authority | Journal Article | 2005 |
| Twitchett, Denis | Chen gui and other works attributed to Empress Wu Zetian | Journal Article | 2003 |
| Huang, Chi-chiang | Consecrating the Buddha: Legend, Lore, and History of the Imperial Relic - Veneration Ritual in the T'ang Dynasty | Journal Article | 1998 |
| Sevillano-López, David | Crisis y Corrupción Durante el Reinado de la Emperatriz Wu Zetian (Crisis and Corruption Under the Reign of Empress Wu Zetian) | Journal Article | 2016 |
| Cawthorne, Nigel | Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China | Book | 2007 |
| Li, Christine; Krautwald, Ulja | Der Weg der Kaiserin. Wie Frauen die alten chinesischen Geheimnisse weiblicher Lust und Macht für sich entdecken | Book | 2000 |
| Eoyang, Eugene | Echo and Shadow: Images of Women in Traditional China | Journal Article | 1994 |
| Eisenberg, A. | Emperor Gaozong, The Rise of Wu Zetian, and Factional Politics in the Early Tang | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Rothschild, Norman Harry | Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers | Book | 2015 |
| Wills, Jr., John E. | Empress Wu | Book Section | 1994 |
| Yang, Hua | Empress Wu and her principles of appointment and dismissal of officials, 652-705 | Thesis | 1999 |
| Jo-Shui, Chen | Empress Wu and Proto-Feminist Sentiments in T'ang China | Book Section | 1994 |
| Paul, Diana | Empress Wu and the Historians: A Tyrant and Saint of Classical China | Book Section | 1989 |
| Rhee, Jong Min | Empress Wu of the Tang dynasty: Becoming the only female emperor in China | Thesis | 2008 |
| Woo, X. L. | Empress Wu the Great: Tang Dynasty China | Book | 2008 |
| Duan, Zhizhuang | Empress Wu Zetian and Hua-yan Buddhist Sect (in Chinese) | | 2014 |
| Dien, Dora Shu-fang | Empress Wu Zetian in Fiction and in History: Female Defiance in Confucian China | Book | 2003 |
| 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 |
| Lepekhova, Elena | Empresses and Buddhism in Japan in VI-VIII cc | Journal Article | 2016 |
| Zhou, Diana | Exploration of the Chinese 'Dangerous Woman': Femme Fatale or Anti-Heroine? | Book Section | 2009 |
| Shen-sheng, Hu; Tan-feng, Feng; Lung-chen, Huang | Female Emperor Wu Tse-T'ien | Journal Article | 1975 |
| 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 |
| Chun, Jinsie K. | I Am Heaven | Book | 1973 |
| Doran, Rebecca Esther | Insatiable Women and Transgressive Authority: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China | Thesis | 2011 |
| Han, Lin | Interactions between Official Records and Folk Discourses:A Study around the Mysterious Stories about Wu Ze-tian (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Sevillano-López, David | La concepción del poder imperial durante el reinado de la emperatriz Wu Zetian (The conception of the Imperial Power under the reign of Empress Wu Zetian) | Journal Article | 2017 |
| Yutang, Lin | Lady Wu, A True Story | Book | 1957 |
| Drège, Jean-Pierre | Les caractères de l'impératrice Wu Zetian dans les manuscrits de Dunhuang et de Turfan | Journal Article | 1984 |
| Sevillano-López, David | Los Sacrificios Fengshan y la Política Religiosa de la Emperatriz Wu Zetian (The Fengshan Sacrifices and the Religious Policy of Empress Wu Zetian) | Journal Article | 2015 |
| 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 |
| Tung, Jowen | Monument Without Inscription: The Case of Wu Zhao | Book Section | 1999 |
| Wong, Tin Kei | On Fidelity and Historicity: A reconsideration of the representation of Wu Zetian in Chinese historical fiction | Thesis | 2013 |
| 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 |
| Soulliere, Ellen F. | Reflections on Chinese Despotism and the Power of the Inner Court | Journal Article | 1984 |
| Song, Xianlin | Re-gendering Chinese History: Zhao Mei's Emperor Wu Zetian | Journal Article | 2010 |
| Smith, Alison T. | Remembering 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 |
| Chen, Jinhua | Sarira and Scepter: Empress Wu's Political Use of Buddhist Relics | Journal Article | 2002 |
| Barrett, T. H. | Stupa, Sutra and Sarira in China, c. 656-706 CE | Journal Article | 2001 |
| Kaneko, Shuichi | The Appraisal of Empress Wu in the Imperial Edicts of the Tang Dynasty (In Japanese) | Journal Article | 2009 |
