What constitutes the core of Chinese culture? How have the Chinese people and their governments changed over the centuries? The series "China's History in Comics - Understanding China Through Its History" provides answers to such questions as well as many others. The second volume, "From the Era of Long Division to the Golden Age," deals with the period of great political division, a time marked by civil wars and foreign invasions, and continues into the golden age of the Tang Dynasty - when China was the most powerful empire on Earth - which ultimately ended in a great collapse. During this era, new ideas and religions spread in China, such as the neo-Daoist movement of mystical teachings, Buddhism, and Daoism. Author and illustrator Jing Liu approaches this with sensitivity.