There were several dozen varieties of fowl, such as the chicken, peasant, sparrow ... crown prince of the State of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. – A.D. 8). Although the book ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

and nearly brought down the mighty Han dynasty, points out Beijing commentator Kaiser Kuo. Peasants are "passive actors" throughout most of history, he says, but occasionally they rise up to keep ...

were charged double the poll tax rate and five times the property rate of a free peasant. However, in reality, it resulted in significantly higher rates of income inequality between the central and ...