Dragon Throne: China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu. by Jonathan Fenby

Dragon Throne: China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu.

Jonathan Fenby

259 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative mysterious tense slow-paced
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The were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221 - 210 BC), who began the construction the Great Wall. The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141 - 87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian state. The soldie...

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