The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun

Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun: A Borderland Ballad of Blood and Tenderness

Set against the turmoil of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, this book turns its gaze to the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, a land that would shape the fate of the Central Plains for centuries. A young garrison soldier grips his spear amid the smoke of war along the Great Wall, while a noblewoman plucks her zither beneath the towers of Youzhou. Duty to country and family collides with the passions of young love. Here are clashes of swords and steeds, power plays in the imperial court, and tangled love and hatred that cross the divide between Han Chinese and nomads. As the mournful song of a lost homeland rises, they take up their flesh and blood as brush and ink, writing a legend of guardianship and resistance across the vast earth, capturing both the ironclad glory and heart-wrenching tenderness of the borderlands.