The Huainanzi was written and edited at the court of Liu An, the king of Huainan, in the context of Liu An's suicide after being found guilty of plotting rebellion in 123 and 122 BC. It advises king
During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Chang'an, near today's Xi'an in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial
