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Books by Wang Tang
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Lone Garrison 孤戍
In the first year of the Zhenyuan era under Emperor Dezong of Tang, eighteen-year-old Zhao Dingbian takes his brother’s place in the army, leaving Tongzhou and traveling thousands of miles west to join the last garrison troops of the Anxi Protectorate. The year he arrives in Qiuci, the Tibetans cut off the Hexi Corridor, severing all contact between Anxi and Chang’an. He has no idea that he will never make it home again over the next forty-two years. This is a lonely city forgotten by the world.
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The Ashes of Hexi 河西烬
In 830 AD, Zhao Yi was born in Huangqu Gou, a place outside the city of Shazhou. His family made their living raising sheep, and the neighboring family, the A Yin family, had a vineyard. For more than sixty years, the Tibetans ruled Hexi, exploiting the Han people like livestock. When Zhao Yi was fifteen, Tibetan soldiers raised the number of sheep his family owed from ten to fifteen. His father couldn’t make up the difference and fell to his knees in the mud. Zhao Yi remembered for the rest of
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