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Author : Sima Qian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199574391
Reprint. Originally published: 2007. Reissued 2009.
Author : Jane Portal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674026977
The rise of Qin and the military conquest of the warring states -- The First Emperor and the Qin empire -- Imperial tours and mountain inscriptions -- The First Emperor's tomb: the afterlife universe -- A two-thousand-year-old underground empire.
Author : Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295750231
Ying Zheng, founder of the Qin empire, is recognized as a pivotal figure in world history, alongside other notable conquerors such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Julius Caesar. His accomplishments include conquest of the warring states of ancient China, creation of an imperial system that endured for two millennia, and unification of Chinese culture through the promotion of a single writing system. Only one biased historical account, written a century after his death in 210 BCE, narrates his biography. Recently, however, archaeologists have revealed the lavish pits associated with his tomb and documents that demonstrate how his dynasty functioned. Debates about the First Emperor have raged since shortly after his demise, making him an ideological slate upon which politicians, revolutionaries, poets, painters, archaeologists, and movie directors have written their own biases, fears, and fantasies. This book is neither a standard biography nor a dynastic history. Rather, it looks historically at interpretations of the First Emperor in history, literature, archaeology, and popular culture as a way to understand the interpreters as much as the subject of their interpretation.
Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : China
ISBN : 1909771112
"Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors. He faked a foreign threat to justify an invasion. He ruled a nation under 24-hour surveillance. He ordered his interrogators to torture suspects. He boiled his critics alive. He buried dissenting scholars. He declared war on death itself."--Back of book.
Author : R. W. L. Guisso,David Miller,Miller, David, 1944 June 1-,Catherine Pagani,Canadian Museum of Civilization,National Film Board of Canada,Xi'an Film Studio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : China
ISBN : 0773723706
Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Profile Books(GB)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015073948567
Was The First Emperor of China a Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant?
Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429933889
Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China's First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, he created imperial China. He stressed the rule of law but suppressed all opposition, burning books and burying scholars alive. His military achievements are reflected in the astonishing terracotta soldiers—a veritable buried army—that surround his tomb, and his Great Wall still fascinates the world. Despite his achievements, however, the First Emperor has been vilified since his death. China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors describes his life and times and reflects the historical arguments over the real founder of China and one of the most important men in Chinese history.
Author : Jane Rollason
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : China
ISBN : 9781292311678
Author : Peggy Pancella
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1403437041
This book presents an overview of Qin Shi Huangdi's life, as well as his influence on history and the world.
Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300210071
The acclaimed historian and author of Caesar presents “a first-rate popular biography” of Rome’s first emperor, written “with a storyteller’s brio” (Washington Post). The story of Augustus’ life is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord whose only claim to power was as the grand-nephew and heir of the murdered Julius Caesar. Mark Antony dubbed him “a boy who owes everything to a name,” but he soon outmaneuvered a host of more experienced politicians to become the last man standing in 30 BC. Over the next half century, Augustus created a new system of government—the Principate or rule of an emperor—which brought peace and stability to the vast Roman Empire. In this highly anticipated biography, Goldsworthy puts his deep knowledge of ancient sources to full use, recounting the events of Augustus’ long life in greater detail than ever before. Goldsworthy pins down the man behind the myths: a consummate manipulator, propagandist, and showman, both generous and ruthless. Under Augustus’ rule the empire prospered, yet his success was constantly under threat and his life was intensely unpredictable.
Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812970586
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustus’s rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The world that made Augustus–and that he himself later remade–was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history–Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra–whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. At a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt brings to life the world of a giant, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale. A study of power and political genius, Augustus is a vivid, compelling biography of one of the most important rulers in history.
Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138896438
Author : Aurelia Campbell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746890
One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 1402–24) gained renown for constructing Beijing’s magnificent Forbidden City, directing ambitious naval expeditions, and creating the world’s largest encyclopedia. What the Emperor Built is the first book-length study devoted to the architectural projects of a single Chinese emperor. Focusing on the imperial palaces in Beijing, a Daoist architectural complex on Mount Wudang, and a Buddhist temple on the Sino-Tibetan frontier, Aurelia Campbell demonstrates how the siting, design, and use of Yongle’s palaces and temples helped cement his authority and legitimize his usurpation of power. Campbell offers insight into Yongle’s sense of empire—from the far-flung locations in which he built, to the distant regions from which he extracted construction materials, and to the use of tens of thousands of craftsmen and other laborers. Through his constructions, Yongle connected himself to the divine, interacted with his subjects, and extended imperial influence across space and time. Spanning issues of architectural design and construction technologies, this deft analysis reveals remarkable advancements in timber-frame construction and implements an art-historical approach to examine patronage, audience, and reception, situating the buildings within their larger historical and religious contexts.
Author : Enzo George
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538206515
"The tomb of China's First Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, is guarded by an army of more than 6,000 life-size terracotta warriors. Doubtless many untold treasures and secrets are sealed in the unopened burial chamber, and perhaps a deadly river of mercury, too. Young archaeologists will delight in learning about this famous ruler and his quest for eternal life. They'll find out how the latest technology is being used to reveal more about the tomb's contents while preserving its artifacts. Beautifully vivid photographs complement the intriguing text, while a timeline aids in summarizing key historical details."
Author : Arthur Cotterell
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39076000925581
Including Illustrations Of The Many Artefacts Of The Chin Period That Have Been Uncovered, Together With Detailed Ground Plans And Cross-Sectional Views Of The Three Main Pits, This Is The Definitive Work On The Spectacular Findings At Mount Li, Tomb Of China`S First Emperor.