Kingdoms and Mountains Take Turns: Three Hundred Years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties

Before opening this book, buckle up. This is a more magical era than Game of Thrones. Here, the emperor changes guard faster than you can change your mobile phone; here, the children of the top families need to be powdered when going out and supported when walking, but they control the lifeblood of the empire; here, you can see the most pious Buddhists and the most perverted butchers. If the Ming Dynasty was a strict bureaucratic company, then the Southern and Northern Dynasties were a Shura field in violent mode.