The Tang Dynasty's Mirror of Power: The Li Dynasty and Its Realm

Emperors, powerful ministers, heroes, and eunuchs: one group takes the stage as another leaves it. The history forged by the Li Tang dynasty reveals a cruelty as relentless as it is inevitable. Brothers turn against one another, families struggle for power, and servants grow too powerful to control... Scene after bloody scene tells the history of the Li family. The Tang dynasty was the glorious height of a flourishing age, a pinnacle we can take pride in, and its splendor has always captured our imagination. This grand empire, without precedent or equal, left countless mysteries and questions for later generations. Taking the family as its starting point, this book draws on a wide range of historical sources to reconstruct the details of the past. In an accessible style, it offers a fresh interpretation of the Li family of the Tang dynasty, tracing its legacy and its conflicts to recreate the rise and fall of the Tang Empire.