Nurhaci, who started his career with thirteen suits of armor, to Puyi who abdicated in the Forbidden City; from the tribes in the white mountains and black waters to the empire that ruled the Central Plains for nearly three hundred years. There are no boring chronicles here, only vivid characters and thrilling stories - Huang Taiji's strategy, Dorgon's ambition, Kangxi's talent, Yongzheng's iron fist, Qianlong's glitz, Cixi's power, and the struggles and ups and downs of countless little people in the torrent of history.
This book narrates the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty in 268 years. Here are the battlefields of war, the turbulent palace, earth-shattering changes, and depressing defeats. Open this book and you will see a real, vivid and flesh-and-blood Qing Dynasty - it once stood on top of the world, and also collapsed under the wheel of the times.
History has never looked so good.
