THE LACQUERED TALISMAN leads readers from the marriage of the first Ming Emperor’s parents, through his young life, and his years of devotion as a Buddhist monk, to the beginnings of the rebellion that would overturn a dynasty and set him on the throne of one of the greatest empires the...
(1986). Wang Mang, the Restoration of the Han Dynasty, and Later Han. In D. Twitchett and M. Loewe (Ed.). The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220 (pp. 223-290). Kiribati: Cambridge University Press. Buswell, R. E., & Lopez, D....
Kamen Rider Ghost (Kamen Raida Gosuto) is the 26th entry in the Kamen Rider franchise and the 17th series in the Heisei Era. The series is primarily themed around ghosts, historical figures, and the paranormal. Please provide your own knowledge to this p
kept in 19th-century wooden cases with glass doors in her New York apartment. “Constitutionally, I am unable to throw a book away. To me, it’s like seeing a baby thrown in a trash can,” she says. “I am a glutton for print. I love books in every way. I love them more than...
I was very much looking forward to this latest novel as she returns within it to her country of origin and tells us a story that begins in a village and moves to the city of Khartoum, Sudan, intertwining the crossover histories of two occupying Empires against a uprising local population,...
My father demanded, "Our dynasty will collapse soon. As you all know, I do not want to attack any of the empires right now, since it will spend too much money and energy. We need someone to go to XiXia right now and make a truce with the army leader." There was a moment of ...