Popular Historical Romance: Romance of the Five Dynasties (Part 2)
by Cai Dongfan
About This Novel
This book describes the troubled times of just over fifty years between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Song Dynasty - the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. This was a period of extreme chaos in which "the capital changed its banner". Short-lived dynasties such as the Later Liang, the Later Tang, the Later Jin, the Later Han, and the Later Wu emerged in the Central Plains, and more than ten separatist regimes coexisted in the surrounding areas. Taking history as the outline, the author vividly depicts the complex faces of the heroes of troubled times such as Zhu Wen, Li Keyong, Shi Jingtang, Guo Wei, Chai Rong, etc., Focusing on major events such as the warlords' melee, the Khitan's southern invasion, and the cession of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun by the Emperor Er. It profoundly reveals the huge trauma caused by division and separatism to society, and foreshadows the inevitable trend of unification. This is the next volume.
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