Han Chinese

What is history? Eight words are enough to sum it up: born at the wrong time, heroes grow old.

Where should we begin telling the history of China? I think it should begin with the Han Dynasty, an era both familiar and strange to us. It is familiar because you and I are its descendants, yet strange because we have never truly understood it.

“So, two thousand two hundred years ago, these things happened on the land beneath our feet. These people existed. So this is what history was really like.”