Romance of the Later Han (Complete in Two Volumes)

The Romance of the Later Han begins with Wang Mang's Xin dynasty and ends with the fall of Shu Han and Cao Wei and the founding of the Jin dynasty, spanning two and a half centuries. It pays particular attention to the rise and fall of dynasties and exposes Wang Mang's hypocrisy in detail. Under Emperor Guangwu, the Eastern Han achieved great success in both civil governance and military affairs. But because the empire was treated as the emperor's family inheritance, after Emperor Huan, consort clans and eunuchs took turns seizing power. Upheaval followed upheaval: first came an era of factional strife, then one of regional warlords fighting among themselves, and finally the age of the Three Kingdoms, when Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Liu Bei, Sun Quan, and other warlords vied for supremacy...