Jing Liu 
Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity [EPUB ebook] 
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Yuan Dynasty (907 – 1368)

This fun, comic-style series that explores China’s relationship with its barbarian neighbors. The Mongols!

Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.

The third volume of the Understanding China Through Comics series, Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity, tells of the founding of the Song Dynasty and its attempts to reinvigorate a flagging economy and government while defending against barbarians and the eventual invasion of China by Genghis Khan and the Mongols.