| Chung
                                                              Kuo Book One
                                                               For
                                                              three thousand
                                                              years, the mighty
                                                              Empire of the Han
                                                              had endured. 
                                                              The Council of the
                                                              Seven ruled with
                                                              absolute
                                                              authority. 
                                                              Their boast: that
                                                              the Great Wheel of
                                                              Change itself had
                                                              ceased to turn. 
                                                              Yet at that
                                                              very moment Chung
                                                              Kuo was
                                                              vulnerable. 
                                                              A challenge had
                                                              arisen from men
                                                              who dreamed of
                                                              Change - although
                                                              Change would mean
                                                              war and a return
                                                              to the old,
                                                              half-forgotten
                                                              svageries of the
                                                              past.  |