MORE THAN TWO millennia ago, a 14-year-old girl was sent on an epic journey to unite two great powers and change the course of history.
She was a Chinese orphan named Liu Xijun, and she had an important job to do.
To the north of China lived the powerful empire of the Xiongnu, a which…
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