The Iron-Blooded Western Frontier: a Record of Zuo Zongtang Carrying a Coffin and Marching to the West

Core themes Taking Zuo Zongtang's "fortress defense" strategy as the core, it shows the iron-blooded journey of the Hunan Army's famous generals carrying coffins to conquer Xinjiang under the intertwining of the Westernization Movement and the border crisis in the late Qing Dynasty. It is interspersed with political games, ethnic integration, military strategies and personal spiritual epics.