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Infamous Chinese Emperors: Tales of Tyranny and Misrule - cover

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Infamous Chinese Emperors: Tales of Tyranny and Misrule

Tian Hengyu

Publisher: Asiapac Books Pte Ltd

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Here are 13 stories on China's most notorious emperors - a motley crew of squanderers, murderers, thugs, lechers and idiots swaggering under the holy cloak of a tianzi! Read on and see how they got their just deserts!
Available since: 03/06/2017.

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