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Chengtian

Empress Chengtian was one of the most well-known and powerful women in the Liao Dynasty, taking after her aunt Empress Yingtian.

Wu Zetian (624-705) was empress consort of China through her marriage to Emperor Gaozong, and later became empress dowager and regent for her sons Zhongzong and Ruizong. She later became the first empress regnant of China.

Xie Caizhen

Caizhen Xie is regarded by several existing sources as the first female director of Chinese cinema who worked in China.

Yang Naimei

Early Chinese film costume designer, producer, writer and actor

Pearl Ing

Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai, the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking.

Esther Eng

Early Chinese-American filmmaker

Helen Wang

Early Chinese film producer, editor and director

Pu Shunqing

China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband

A Nong

Shamaness, matriarch and warrior A Nong was a prominent figure among the Zhuang and Nùng people in the 11th century.