There had been war - a war which the great world-spanning empire of Chung Kuo had survived. But at a cost.
The Seven - rulers of Chung Kuo - were weak. Weaker than they had ever been. Now, in the teeming lower depths of their great City, the current of change is flowing again, turning the Great Wheel, and one event - a murder, perhaps, or a palace plot - might throw the world into chaos once more.
