![]() The events of the novel closely parallel the historical Disaster of Jingkang and the defeat of the Kaifeng-based Song dynasty by the invading Jin dynasty. ![]() Kitai has vast wealth and a rich civic culture centered on ci lyrical poetry, but the empire's military, intentionally weakened by the imperial civil service following the events of Under Heaven, has proven unable to resist incursions by tribes of the northern steppe., Kitai's borders have receded south of the long-abandoned Long Wall, and the empire has established an uneasy peace with the Xiaolu Empire on the steppe, which, despite its military superiority, has grown economically dependent on Kitai. The novel is set in the empire of Kitai, an analogue of twelfth-century Song dynasty China, around five hundred years following the events of Under Heaven. ![]() The novel is a fictionalized account of the Disaster of Jingkang and the beginning of the Jin–Song Wars during the Song Dynasty. It is Kay's second work set in an alternate history of China, taking place 400 years after his previous novel, Under Heaven. ![]() It was published in April 2013 by Roc Hardcover. River of Stars, a historical fantasy, is the twelfth novel by Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay. ![]()
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