Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle (2001)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0295981091

Condition: Good

There is a stain on the back of the dust jacket, and there is pencil underlining throughout the book.

Contents Description:

The reign of Emperor Yongle, or "Perpetual Happiness" - which began with civil war and a bloody coup, and saw the construction of the Forbidden City, completion of the Grand Canal, and consolidation of the imperial bureaucracy - was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. - from the inside flap