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Books by Yue Fan Who Loves Barroth
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The Heyin Coup: Empress Dowager Ling's Sixteen-Year Thirst for Power 河阴之变一灵太后的十六年权欲
Hu of the Northern Wei, the Empress Dowager Ling, was born into the Hu clan of Anding. Because her aunt was a Buddhist nun, she was able to enter the palace as a child. At the time, the Northern Wei's harsh old rule dictated that a mother must die when her son became crown prince. She insisted on giving birth to Yuan Xu anyway, and won that gamble with death. On the night Emperor Xuanwu died suddenly, she evaded an assassination attempt by the Gao clan with the protection of Yu Zhong and Cui Gua
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The Ancestors of Sui and Tang, Uniting North and South 南北一统之隋唐先祖
Why write about this period? The most gripping power struggle in Chinese history did not take place during the Three Kingdoms or the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. It was at the end of the Northern Wei. What does this history contain? A mother who poisoned her own son, Empress Dowager Hu; an emperor who personally assassinated a powerful minister, Emperor Xiaozhuang; a warlord who slaughtered two thousand officials in a single night, Er Zhu Rong; a legendary battle in which thirty
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