Tang's Winds Across Ten Thousand Miles: When a Peking University history PhD lands in the Kaiyuan golden age.
He is an expert in classical texts and the art of war, and knows how the tides of history will shift over the next thousand years. Before Li Bai and Du Fu have made their names, he already sees every crack that will bring down the High Tang. At a poetry gathering by the Qujiang River, his poem “Spring River, Flowers, Moonlit Night” astonishes the crowd. In the Zichen Hall, one remark, “Your Majesty's peril is greater than Taizong's,” shakes the entire court. Li Linfu smiles as he hides a blade, An Lushan conceals treachery behind a guileless air, Wang Wei is aloof, and He Zhizhang is unrestrained. Moving among literary giants and the powerful, he uses modern knowledge to outclass them, hoping to change the fate of the An Lushan Rebellion.
This is not one man's tale of an easy rise to power, but an epic about an entire era being set in motion.
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