A Cute History of the Great Song

A feast of history wrapped in humor, and a wondrous transmigration that lets the ancients speak like ordinary people. Open these pages and you’ll meet the “most familiar stranger” of them all: the Song dynasty, both rolling in riches and adorably timid, at once exquisitely literary and brimming with everyday warmth. Across a thousand years, it offers you a “transmigration ticket” covered in jokes.