The Legitimacy of the Female Rulers'Governance in Imperialistic China

Even though the main culture tradition denied that female had any legitimacy to take part in political business,female rulers' governance still existed through the whole imperialistic China.The fuzzy boundary between the family and the state business,female rulers'status as'small monarch',the inherent limitation of the sovereign inheritance institution,the main culture's worship to the filial piety,the special political system of the'bureaucracy-emperor',all gave some resources to their governance legitimacy.However,they didn't have the ultimate legitimacy essentially;their governance were 'transitional','instable'and'personal'.