Night Banquet (The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Behind the Glamour)

Author: Du Wenyu
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Features: This book takes the Southern Tang as the narrative focus, yet it unfolds the complete picture of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. These fifty-three years are so chaotic and turbulent that even words like "disorder" and "turmoil" struggle to accurately describe its historical state. Taking the Central Plains, the center of the continuation of Chinese civilization, as an example, five dynasties succeeded one another in an instant—the longest lasted seventeen years, while the shortest was merely more than three years. Ancestral laws and royal decrees were manipulated as if they were playthings.