DRAGON THRONE: CHINA'S EMPERORS FROM THE QIN TO THE MANCHU Valois and the birth of a

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DRAGON THRONE: CHINA'S EMPERORS FROM THE QIN TO THE MANCHU Valois and the birth of aFrom 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