DRAGON THRONE: CHINA'S EMPERORS FROM THE QIN TO THE MANCHU Family and Relationship Over 300 images are coupled

Over 300 images are coupled with an informed and engaging text to take the reader on a journey through a land of immense variety

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DRAGON THRONE: CHINA'S EMPERORS FROM THE QIN TO THE MANCHU Family and Relationship Over 300 images are coupledFrom 221 BC when Shi Huangdi, First Emperor and founding father of Chinese imperial history, unified a large part of the Han Chinese homeland until 1911, when imperial China collapsed in revolutionary chaos, China was ruled by a succession of powerful imperial dynasties. "The Dragon Throne" tells their rich, complex and often turbulent story, from the inception of the Qin dynasty to the fall of the Manchu in the early 20th century. China's imperial