A Year of No Significance: The 15th Year of Wanli (Chinese Edition)

The 15th year of Wanli, i.e. AD 1587, which is, in the history of Western Europe, the year before the Spanish fleets went all out to subjugate Britain. In China, this insipid year witnessed many events easy to be ignored by historians. Seemingly insignificant, these events are in essence the crux of previous big events, and also the causes of later turbulences. In the eyes of historian Ray Huang, the relations among them are just the key points of history, and our big historical journey begins here...