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

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

Jonathan Fenby

304 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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

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