The Absurd Emperors of China

There have been countless emperors throughout China’s five thousand years of history. I’ll dig up, unpack, and lay bare one by one the absurd, amusing, and downright bizarre stories about emperors and their ministers, whether written in black and white in the official histories or embellished and passed down in unofficial accounts.

We won’t dress up or whitewash history in this book. We’ll look at it barefaced. You’ll find that history without makeup can be more exciting than history with it, more outrageous than a TV drama, and funnier than a comedy routine.