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Books by 李婍
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Curtains Stir at Weiyang Tower 帘卷未央楼
She was a great female stateswoman, ranked alongside Empress Lü, Wu Zetian, and Empress Dowager Cixi, and the last ruler of the Chinese Empire to uphold the philosophy of Huang-Lao. This remarkable woman rose from commoner to palace maid, then helped three emperors of the Wen, Jing, and Wu eras implement policies of allowing the people to recover and ruling through noninterference, bringing the Han dynasty to the height of its power. This book recounts her arduous journey from a poor girl of hum
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The Emperors of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 五代十国的那些皇帝
In a fifty-four-year era of chaos, fifteen dynasties ruled the land, yet more than fifty men from eight different clans became emperors. A dozen or so rival regimes took turns in a farcical dance of power. After the upheavals of the late Tang Empire left the realm gravely weakened, it could only lick its wounds in silence this way. Such a chaotic age was bound to be turbulent and unconventional, bound to produce tyrants who defied the heavens, and bound to see a good ruler who would move history
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