Rise and Fall of the North and South Dynasties Romance

Author: Cai Dongfan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: A popular history masterpiece that has gained fame both at home and abroad. Renowned historian Cai Dongfan uses official history as the backbone and anecdotes as the weft. After ten years of painstaking effort, he vividly portrays five thousand years of Chinese history in a chapter-by-chapter format, with colloquial prose, witty comments, and a true-to-life depiction of the tumultuous evolution of Chinese civilization. It portrays the emperors of the Qin and Han dynasties, the founding emperors of the Tang and Song dynasties, the customs and livelihoods during the rise and fall of dynasties, and the survival wisdom amidst battlefield bloodshed and palace intrigues.