Beauty in Weiyang Palace

More than two thousand years ago, the Western Han dynasty was founded within the lands of China, opening a new chapter in the history of a unified empire.
Set against this dynasty, and centered within the palace complex of Weiyang, this book follows a host of real women of the imperial court, tracing the love and longing, fear and desire, and the collapsing destinies that intertwined in the shadows of the deep palace.

Step into the hidden depths of souls whose tenderness and suffering were long erased by official histories-
empresses, consorts, handmaids, abandoned wives...
Their beauty and infamy, their glory and their downfall, quietly overlapped beneath the will of the emperor and the sweeping tides of their age.

Under the weight of imperial destiny, they gave their youth, dignity, and even their lives in exchange for one illusory splendor after another.
Though history leaves only a few sparse lines about them, in these pages they regain their vivid heartbeat.