Stars of the Song Dynasty: Song Renzong and His Famous Ministers

During the forty-two years of Song Renzong's reign, he did not have any ambition to expand his territory, but he created the most dazzling era for literati in Chinese history. This book tells the legendary lives of famous officials such as Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu, Bao Zheng, and Di Qing in a relaxed and popular style. There is the war in the northwest, the new policies in the court, the ironclad resolution of the case, the romance in the literary world, the collision between ideals and reality, and the persistence of a gentleman and his character. A gentle and brilliant Northern Song Dynasty scene slowly unfolded.