A delicious narrative of an era in 7th cen. CE imperial politics and indoctrination, translating diverse classical biographies and annals from classical "Chinese" characters (2nd - 9th cen. CE) to English diction; detailed footnotes (178), overweening attention to commentaries, given to compensate for "unknown" contemporaneous documentary artifacts:
Denis Twitchett, Chen gui and Other Works Attributed to Empress Wu Z[i]e[]tian, 77 pp
Readers surely will find many concepts of bureaucratic hygiene familiar to their modern relation to AUTHORITARIAN governance.