Nearly four hundred years of division and chaos hold the most tumultuous chapter in the growth of Chinese civilization! Here you'll find the absurd civil war of the Sima clan, where relatives turned on one another; Xie An's legendary battle at Feishui, where he wagered his villa over a game of Go; Emperor Xiaowen's bold sinicization reforms; and the twists and turns in the fortunes of heroes such as Liu Yu and Yang Jian. There is the brutality of endless warfare and the intrigue of aristocratic power struggles, as well as the elegance of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and Tao Yuanming's poetry. Woven through it all are the resilience of ethnic integration and the inevitability of reunification. Dry historical records become vivid stories, and complex figures come alive with passion. Dive in and discover this pivotal era, when division gave birth to a golden age!
