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What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Ashes of the Dragon
2. Chapter Two - The Boy Who Watched Empires Burn
3. Chapter Three - The Philosopher-Warrior
4. Chapter Four - Warlords, Blood, and the Long March
5. Chapter Five - The Puppet Alliance
6. Chapter Six - The Great Gamble
7. Chapter Seven - Red China Is Born
8. Chapter Eight - The Great Leap… Into Hell
9. Chapter Nine - The Cultural Revolution
10. Chapter Ten - The Deathless Chairman
11. Chapter Eleven - The Man Who Took the Crown
12. Chapter Twelve - Mao 2.0
13. Chapter Thirteen - Can You Kill a God?

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Ashes of the Dragon CHINA DIDN’T COLLAPSE in a day. It bled out over decades. The Qing Dynasty — last of the imperial line — didn’t fall with a bang, but with a slow, sickening wheeze. Foreign boots trampled Beijing. Peasants starved under silver-drained coffers. The emperors still wore crowns, but their power was paper — folding under opium, rebellion, and rot. By 1911, the Middle Kingdom was no longer a kingdom. It was a map with no meaning. That year, the dragon died. But history doesn’t leave power lying around. Someone always picks it up. Sun Yat-sen was the first to try. He dreamed of a China reborn: democratic, modern, united. But dreams don’t survive long in civil war....