Last Emperor

Read about the final decades of a four century long Imperial Dynasty.

Last Emperor is a classical Chinese to English translation of selections from the Hòu Hàn shū, the canonical Chinese history covering the Later Hàn dynasty (25 - 220). The selections are taken from the Annals of the titular last Emperor of the Later Hàn Dynasty (Xiàn-dì jì, HHS 9), Emperor Xiào-Xiàn, with additional supplementary excerpts selected from his predecessors (Líng-dì jì, HHS 8) and several related Empresses (Huánghòu jì, HHS 10), covering a period of about 189 to 220.

• 50 pages
• Translations plus an introduction
• 155 explanatory footnotes
• 1 map
• 3 tables
• 2 genealogies
• 1 bibliography

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