Popular Romance of Chinese Dynasties: Romance of the Former Han Dynasty (part 2)
by Cai Dongfan
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The dynasties described in "The Romance of the Former Han Dynasty" include the Qin and the Western Han Dynasty, starting from the birth of King Yingzheng of Qin to the usurpation of the Western Han Dynasty by Wang Mang, a total of two and a half centuries. The book describes in detail the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, the conflict between Chu and Han, and the expansion of territory by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It also teases Emperor Qin and Han Wu who wanted to become immortals, and reveals Wang Mang's insidiousness and cunning. "The Romance of the Former Han Dynasty" better describes the appearance of the early unified feudal empire. This book tells the history from "the 51st chapter when Lao Lang, an official, Yan saved Wei Shangxian and Prime Minister Deng Tong, facedly impeached Deng Tong" to "the 100th chapter, when Wang Mang, the king who stole the country's power, killed the emperor and surrendered the imperial seal to the Yuan Dynasty to restore the clan." From the first prosperous period of the feudal dynasty, the "Government of Wenjing" to the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, from the pursuit of the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty to the north to Zhang Qian's passage to the Western Regions, from Zhaojun's departure to the power of his relatives in the late Western Han Dynasty, to Wang Mang's usurpation of the dynasty, the history is laid out one by one...
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