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The Spring and Autumn of Wu and Yue
The great revenge story of ancient China, told as a historical saga. Zhao Ye's Spring and Autumn of Wu and Yue follows the southern kingdoms from their legendary origins to the final struggle between King Fuchai of Wu and King Goujian of Yue: Wu Zixu's flight from Chu and his vengeance on the corpse of the king who killed his family; the assassin Zhuan Zhu and the fish-gut dagger; Goujian's captivity, his tasting of gall and his patient revenge; the beauty Xi Shi sent to ruin Wu; the swordsmiths, archers and the woman of Yue who taught swordplay. This complete new English translation gives all the chapters, with the collected fragments of lost text. Names are given in modern pinyin, offices and titles are rendered plainly, and the narrative runs as continuous English prose, so the book can be read straight through by anyone curious about China's past, not only by specialists.
