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War beasts trample, dragons roar, wizards curse, and the bright light of magic shines on the beacon of knowledge!

This book is a representative work on the history of medieval China, the history of ethnic relations in the Middle Ages, and the history of Sino-foreign relations. First published in 1992, it immediately received widespread attention and praise from the academic community. "Journal of Peking University", "Chinese Social Sciences", the American "Central Asia Magazine", the British "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society", "Macau Daily News", etc. Have published many book reviews. The book mainly elaborates on the competition between the three major political forces of Tang, Tubo and Dashi in Central Asia in the seventh and eighth centuries AD and the complex relationships between them. Such as Tubo's expansion of power to the Western Regions and its war with the Tang Dynasty, the rise and fall of the Western Turks, the eastern expansion of Dashi, etc. The author made extensive use of first-hand materials including Chinese and Tibetan documents unearthed in Dunhuang and Turpan, and made a large number of excerpts and translations from Arabic historical books to draw convincing conclusions and promote in-depth research on related academic issues.

This book studies the cohesion process of neighboring ethnic groups such as Turks, Tubo, Uighurs, Khitans and Mongols in China's medieval period. It analyzes the process of the rise of these ethnic groups. The introduction of Zoroastrianism, Bonism, Manichaeism and other folk religions has become an important resource for constructing the historical memory of this ethnic group and promoted national identity and ethnic cohesion.

The work dramatizes the life of Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, in a fantasy style. In the book, historical figures such as Li Shishi, Zhou Bangyan, Li Qingzhao, and Zhang Zeduan appear one after another. The interweaving of reality and dreams drives the fate of a generation of emperors, vividly showing Zhao Ji's tragic life and the final prosperity and overthrow of the Northern Song Dynasty.

A floating dream has no life, and the writing comes from writing. The hands that control destiny are always our own. Let's see if the officer dares.