The Dragon Throne : China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu Condition:Very Good ' A remarkable debut novel'

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The Dragon Throne : China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu Condition:Very Good ' A remarkable debut novel'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 scholar Yongle (r. 1402 24 AD), who raised the Ming dynasty to its military peak. The dowager empress Cixi (r. 1861 1908 AD), who rose from humble Manchu origins to rule over all China. In The Dragon