Eastern Han Dynasty: A History of China

A struggling provincial officer, short on food and long on enemies, is asked to marry for politics, gamble on impossible battles, and trust men who may betray him tomorrow. He hesitates, he compromises, and then—almost quietly—he becomes the man who will rebuild an empire.This book tells the rise of Liu Xiu, the future Emperor Guangwu, not as a distant legend but as a sequence of sharp, human choi...