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A Step Into The Past: I Am Han Xin
The struggles between the Immortal, Devil, and Mortal Realms have been endless since time immemorial. The shadows of the sword and Light Sword stained the clothes with blood. Fight for the world! Hunting absolute beauties! To overturn the Heavenly Dao! Only I am! It was a fantasy, a war between all the beings of the three realms. It was a military battle, a war on the battlefield, a war against each other. It was history. Han Xin! A loud name made everyone's blood boil. Behind him, there were even Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, the two prodigies, Zhang Liang, Princess Yu, and Xin Zhui.
A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 BC - AD 24)
This is a unique and conclusive reference work about the 6,000 individual men and women known to us from China’s formative first empires. Over decennia Michael Loewe (Cambridge, UK) has painstakingly collected all biographical information available. Not only those are dealt with who set the literary forms and intellectual background of traditional China, such as writers, scholars, historians and philosophers, but also those officials who administered the empire, and the military leaders who fought in civil warfare or with China’s neighbours. The work draws on primary historical sources as interpreted by Chinese, Japanese and Western scholars and as supplemented by archaeological finds and inscriptions. By devoting extensive entries to each of the emperors the author provides the reader with the necessary historical context and gives insight into the dynastic disputes and their far-reaching consequences. No comparable work exists for this important period of Chinese history. Without exaggeration a real must for historians of both China and other cultures.
Reading Sima Qian from Han to Song
In Father of Chinese History, Esther Klein explores the life and work of the great Han dynasty historian Sima Qian as seen by readers from the Han to the Song dynasties. Today Sima Qian is viewed as both a tragic hero and a literary genius. Premodern responses to him were more equivocal: the complex personal emotions he expressed prompted readers to worry about whether his work as a historian was morally or politically acceptable. Klein demonstrates how controversies over the value and meaning of Sima Qian’s work are intimately bound up with larger questions: How should history be written? What role does individual experience and self-expression play within that process? By what standards can the historian’s choices be judged?
Records of the Grand Historian
This volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energetic and strong-willed of China’s Rulers. Here the historian is chronicling events he has witnessed and writing of the men he personally knows or has known. In Nagano Hozan’s (1783-1837) words, “He makes us see in our minds the character of the men of the time, and this is why he is a great historian.:
Trading Between Worlds
In a world split between apocalypse and antiquity, she discovers the ultimate loophole — bartering energy crystals from a ruined future for priceless antiques from the past. Each trade rewrites history and reshapes her destiny. As she navigates between collapsing cities and ancient empires, danger lurks in both timelines — from scavengers who want her power to collectors who want her secrets. Trading Between Worlds is a spellbinding blend of sci-fi and fantasy, where survival, greed, and fate collide. It explores how one woman turns the balance of two civilizations upside down — one deal at a time.
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One Written Word is Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold
Adeline Yen Mah introduces us to the rich picture of the first century BC when, after long wars between states, China was finally united and the richness of its literature and art could flourish.
The Great Wall of China
Historical examination of the building of China's Great Wall.
