The Rise of the Han Dynasty

"Even if only three households remain in the Kingdom of Chu, the Chu will still prove to be the death of the Qin." This was the prophecy circulating around China during the last years of the Qin Dynasty. 

A brilliant cast of characters were about to put that prophecy to the test: Xiang Yu, the dashing young hero and greatest warrior of his generation; Lady Yu, his faithful wife and the most beautiful woman in China; Liu Bang, the middle-aged small-time crook who seemingly had done little with his life and yet possessed the gift of leadership; Han Xin, the impoverished young man desperate to prove that he could be somebody; Zhang Liang, the son of displaced aristocrats whom others often mistook for a woman but who might have been the wisest of them all...

This episode immediately follows the previous one on the end of Qin Shi Huang. And it is the story of how one of the most important dynasties in Chinese history came to be.

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