The Han Dynasty: Foundation of Chinese Civilization Dynasties of Ancient China, #2
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
20.07.2026
Verlag
Imagin8 PressSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
438 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798951011084
Two thousand years ago, an empire rose from the ashes of war to become one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen.
The Han Dynasty begins with one of history's most unlikely founding stories: a lazy but charming minor official named Liu Bang who somehow outmaneuvered the most fearsome general of his age to unite China and start a dynasty that would last four hundred years. But this is not simply a story of emperors and battles. It's about the people who made the empire work, and the people it failed.
Han Xin crawled through a bully's legs as a boy, became the greatest military mind of his era, and was then executed by the ruler he had served faithfully. Emperor Wu expanded China's borders to the edges of the known world, yet his wars left millions of ordinary people struggling to survive. Farmers struggled desperately to pay their taxes. Merchants grew rich but their children were forbidden to become officials. And amid all of it, the competing ideas of Confucius, Laozi, and the Buddha shaped how a civilization thought about what it means to live a good life.
The Han Dynasty brings this extraordinary world to life its heroes, its contradictions, and the everyday people who lived through it all.
This is the second book in the Dynasties of Ancient China series of graded readers for English speakers learning to read Simplified Chinese. The book uses 915 Chinese words, most of which are in the HSK-4 vocabulary. It includes a pinyin version and a complete English translation, and a glossary that defines all Chinese words used. This makes it ideal for learners who want to improve their language skills while gaining a deeper understanding of Chinese history and culture.
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