The Great Tang

The Great Tang is a historical web novel by Longmen Liyu, serialized on the Baidu Novels platform. Set during the Tianbao era of the Tang dynasty, it tells of a modern person who unexpectedly returns to the high Tang at a fateful juncture in the life of Yang Guifei, and from there sets in motion a series of actions that alter the course of history. Against the backdrop of the high Tang's decline, the work involves the upheavals before and after the An Lushan Rebellion, confrontations with An Lushan and other forces, and plotlines in which the protagonist travels far to Liaodong and pursues the Abbasid army westward as far as Baghdad, shaping a time traveler who strives to make a difference amid chaos. Combining historical romance with time-travel imagination, the book lays out the court, the marketplace, and the battlefield of the Tianbao years, offering both entertaining sketches of Tang aesthetics, customs, and social life and reflections on nation and self, and on personal choice. It should be noted that more than one work online bears the name "The Great Tang"; there is also a novel of the same title by Jing Kesou, drawing on the background of The Twin Dragons of the Great Tang and belonging to the late-Sui struggle-for-hegemony genre. The information here follows the Longmen Liyu version: it is a web serial with no record of formal publication, so publication details are unavailable. When buying or reading a book of this title, take care to distinguish author and version.