Empress Xu 12/113/3509-3511. This material was reprinted with the kind permission of the Harvard University Asia Center, from Wilt Idema and Beata Grant, The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004), (c) The President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2004. Posted here are pp. 305-307.
The first six empresses, with preface, omitting secondary consorts, 12/113/3503-3514, translated by Ellen Soulliere as “Empresses of the Ming Dynasty: 1368-1462, from the History of the Ming Dynasty” in Renditions: A Chinese-English Translation Magazine 85 (Spring 2016): 23-42.