By: Christine Bodenschatz Li and Ulja Krautwald
Author
Christine Li, MD, studied sinology and medicine before spending five years studying traditional Chinese medicine in Shanghai and Peking. She works as a doctor and writer in Hong Kong, Hamburg and Santa Fe.
Author
Ulja Krautwald was born in Hamburg to a family of craftspeople. Her father was a self-employed housepainter and her mother worked from home, taking telephone calls and looking after the accounts for the painting business.
Ulja studied Sociology, which she found at times somewhat dry, but which provided her with a dispassionate view of all scientific matters and of current social trends. She understands how scientific studies can be manipulated and that so-called truths may serve financial interests.
Joyfully she observes the change in consciousness taking place in our society, and she is convinced that we are in the midst of a huge spiritual transformation process.
Early in life Ulja developed an interest in alternative healing and the wisdom of the Far East. She has meditated for many years and draws strength from silence and from nature.
Her two children are now grown up, and she takes great delight in being a grandmother.
Ulja Krautwaldcontinues to live in Hamburg, where she works as a writer and publisher, and runs her own business, providing the herbs required for the Elixirs of the Empress. She likes to walk along the River Elbe, gathering driftwood.
Her internet address: www.zinnoberfluss.com
The Path of the Empress: How to Free Your Feminine Power Rockpool Publishing, 9781925017519) was positively reviewed on November 23, 2015 on Publishers Weekly’s 567,387 uvpm) Web-Exclusive Reviews. The complete review follows: Li and Krautwald draw on traditional Chinese medicine and the life of Wu Zhao 624–705), China's only female monarch, to create an unusual self-help book.
This entire exploration of the feminine power is based on the life of Wu Zhao, the only woman to ever officially rule China. Her rule led to many changes and developments in China which were deemed as extremely radical at the time, many of which are now considered a normal component of life and times in modern and ancient China.
