Assassination 1905: The Complete Series

In 1905, the prelude to the bloodiest “era of assassinations” in modern Chinese history slowly began. Sun Yat-sen established the Tongmenghui's assassination division; Cai Yuanpei organized the Restoration Society to carry out assassinations; Chen Duxiu became the mastermind behind an assassination group; even the writer Lu Xun joined the group. Whatever their beliefs or aims, they all sought to control the country's future through this most ancient form of violence. Amid those obscured chapters of history, an assassin whose actions truly determined the fates of others was swept into a series of political killings by the tides of the times, becoming a pivotal force in the balance between rival factions. He infiltrated the Forbidden City alone to assassinate Empress Dowager Cixi, served as Sun Yat-sen's bodyguard in Tokyo, and once broke into a prison to rescue Wang Jingwei. He also forged deep bonds with anti-Qing revolutionaries such as Wu Yue. In that storm-tossed era, he changed the future of both his own life and his country through assassination after assassination, night after night. Drawing on numerous historical sources, the author brings long-buried assassination cases back to light and reexamines that era, when no one could feel safe, through a story full of twists and turns. Open this book and discover the madness and chaos of that thousand-year upheaval.