Empress Lü Zhi (241–180 BCE), who was married to Emperor Gaozu—the man who founded the Han dynasty—is often seen as one of the toughest and most talked-about women in all of Chinese imperial history....
After the Qin dynasty collapsed between 221 and 206 BCE, China fell into a messy civil war known as the Chu–Han Contention (206–202 BCE), and two very different men ended up leading the fight....


