Half His Life an Exiled Immortal, Half His Life a Minister: The Biography of Li Mi

“At seven, he astonished the Xuanzong Emperor and set his sights on becoming a ‘mountain-dwelling chancellor.’ Yet across four reigns, through the An Lushan Rebellion, the Jingyuan Mutiny, and the Zhenyuan Pact, he bore the fate of the Tang Dynasty on his shoulders as a commoner. All his life, he longed to retire to seclusion, yet all his life, he was drawn into the game. This is a story of ‘walking the straight path’ and ‘enduring,’ of an exiled immortal struggling and holding fast in a living hell.”