The Imperial Capitals of China: An Inside View of the Celestial Empire - Arthur Cotterell - Google Books

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From the First Emperor's obsessive - and fatal - attempts to engage the Immortals in 219-210 BC, to the striking creativity that produced the golden age of literature and art in Tang Chang'an, to the culmination of architectural virtuosity seen in The…