Fire from the Earth: The Five Barbarians, the Fall of Luoyang, and the Transformation of the Chinese World

In 200 BCE, the Han emperor rode home from a humiliating military defeat and sent a princess north to marry the enemy. It was a practical solution to an impossible problem — and the first link in a chain of consequences that would, three centuries later, shatter the most powerful empire on earth.Fire from the Earth traces the full arc of one of history's most consequential and least-known catastro...