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Tales of the Han Dynasty, Vol. 1 汉朝那些事儿.第1卷
The birth of Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, was said to be extraordinary: his mother, Lady Wang, supposedly conceived him after an encounter with a dragon. He was born with seventy-two black moles on his feet, a sign that he was destined for greatness. As a boy, he was so unruly that he drove his family to despair. After he started school, he eventually wore down his teacher, too. At eighteen, Liu Bang left the classroom and began a life of mischief. Just then, he met the gre
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Tales from the Han Dynasty, Volume 2 汉朝那些事儿.第2卷
Volume 2 of The Stories of the Han Dynasty follows Liu Bang as he finally ascends the throne. But winning an empire is hard, and holding on to one is harder. To secure his rule, Liu Bang turned his blade against the “three great strategists” who had helped him defeat Xiang Yu: Han Xin, Xiao He, and Zhang Liang. Poor Han Xin became the first scapegoat sacrificed to stabilize the Han Empire, followed by Peng Yue, Ying Bu, and others. Yet it was not Liu Bang who carried out the killings, but his wi
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Tales of the Han Dynasty, Vol. 4 汉朝那些事儿.第4卷
After stabilizing the frontier against the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of Han embarked on a frenzied campaign of military expansion. But when Li Guangli and Li Ling were defeated and surrendered to the Xiongnu in turn, the emperor’s dream of supremacy was shattered in his final years. Then came the Disaster of the Witchcraft Scandal, setting off a battle over the position of crown prince. The emperor’s trusted officials and famed generals were drawn into the struggle, and in the end, the would-be heir L
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Tales of the Han Dynasty, Vol. 3 汉朝那些事儿.第3卷
Emperor Jing of Han’s policy of “ruling by doing nothing” ultimately unleashed a storm of bloodshed in the imperial harem. First came a battle for the title of “queen of the harem,” which eventually turned into a struggle over the crown prince. In the end, Liu Che took the position. Once on the throne, he was full of ambition. First, he launched an unprecedented “revolution in thought,” making Confucianism the ideological foundation of imperial rule. Then he began a “military revolution,” sendin
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