Qualla: Pei County https://qualla.com/pei-county en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/j/pei-county-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pei County https://qualla.com/pei-county Pei County: Introduction https://qualla.com/pei-county/ Photo credit Huchuansong|胡传松, CC BY-SA 3.0. Liu Bang was born here. That single fact has defined Pei County for more than two thousand years. The man who would become the founding emperor of the Han dynasty started as a minor local official in this unremarkable patch of land on the western shore of Nansi Lake, in what is now Jiangsu Province. He was not noble, not wealthy, and by most accounts not particularly refined. But from this county of flat farmland and quiet towns, he raised an army, overthrew the Qin dynasty, defeated the aristocratic warrior Xiang Yu, and established a dynasty that would rule China for over four hundred years and give its name to the Han Chinese ethnic majority.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/j/pei-county-wp/ww5j-pei-county-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pei County: A Peasant Emperor's Roots https://qualla.com/pei-county/ Photo credit Slb nsk, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pei County sits under the administration of Xuzhou, bordering the Shandong cities of Jining to the northwest and Zaozhuang to the northeast. With an area of 1,576 square kilometers and a population of over 1.1 million, it is not a small place, but neither is it a famous one beyon...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/j/pei-county-wp/ww5j-pei-county-a-peasant-emperors-roots.mp3 0:06 2 full Pei County: Xiaopei and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms https://qualla.com/pei-county/ Photo credit Slb nsk, CC BY-SA 4.0. Within present-day Pei County lies the site of Xiaopei, an ancient town that played a pivotal role during the chaotic final decades of the Eastern Han dynasty. The region fell under the jurisdiction of Xu Province, governed by Tao Qian. Before Tao Qian died, he handed his governo...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/j/pei-county-wp/ww5j-pei-county-xiaopei-and-the-wars-of-the-three-kingdoms.mp3 0:06 3 full Pei County: The Landscape of Ambition https://qualla.com/pei-county/ Photo credit Slb nsk, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pei County's geography explains much about its history. Situated on the western shore of Nansi Lake, the largest freshwater lake in northern China, and positioned at the boundary between Jiangsu and Shandong provinces, it occupies a transitional zone between the flat agricultural...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/j/pei-county-wp/ww5j-pei-county-the-landscape-of-ambition.mp3 0:06 4 full Pei County: Fifteen Towns, One Legacy https://qualla.com/pei-county/ Photo credit Slb nsk, CC BY-SA 4.0. Modern Pei County is organized into 15 towns, from Longgu and Yangtun in the north to Anguo in the south. The administrative structure is unremarkable, typical of a Chinese county. But the cultural memory of Liu Bang saturates the place. In a country where the founding of a dynas...

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