{"product_id":"prince-dan-of-yan-valentin-saric-9798247627708","title":"Prince Dan of Yan: The First Assassin's Tale \/ \u0026#29141;\u0026#20025;\u0026#23376; (English Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore there was wuxia, there was this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 227 BCE, a swordsman named Jing Ke walked into the throne room of the most powerful man in China - the future First Emperor - with a poisoned dagger hidden inside a rolled map. What happened next became the founding legend of Chinese assassin literature, retold for two thousand years in opera, film, and fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the version you think you know isn't the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrince Dan of Yan\u003c\/i\u003e predates the famous account in Sima Qian's \u003ci\u003eRecords of the Grand Historian\u003c\/i\u003e. Where the official history stripped away the supernatural and stuck to verifiable facts, this anonymous narrative kept the strange and the mythic: a crow whose head turns white, a horse that sprouts horns, omens that bend the natural world to the weight of human loyalty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story as it was first told - not as history, but as legend. A prince betrayed by his childhood friend, now king of a devouring empire. A swordsman who tests his patron's worthiness before agreeing to die for him. A mission everyone knows will fail, undertaken anyway, because some debts can only be paid in blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars have called \u003ci\u003eYandanzi\u003c\/i\u003e the first work of fiction in Chinese literature and the origin of the wuxia tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Valentin Saric,Anonymous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798247627708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d","brand":"Valentin Saric","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997475385599,"sku":"9798247627708","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prince-dan-of-yan-valentin-saric-9798247627708","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}