The burning of books and burying of scholars was the purported burning of texts in 213 BCE and live burial of 460 Confucian scholars in 212 BCE ordered by Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang. The events were alleged to have destroyed philosophical treatises of the Hundred Schools of Thought, with ...
From a long-term perspective, the burning of the books did not have a huge impact, because at the time most books were orally transmitted. The impact has also been mitigated by books that have been dug up in recent years. However, during the Qin Dynasty, it was disastrous for the newly...
Their feudal ideas and their criticism of the emperor’s sweeping reforms led to the infamous ‘burning of the books and burying of scholars’ in 213 B.C.E., which blackened the name of Ch’in Shih Huang Ti for posterity. jw2019 秦始皇的王陵可说是一座地下宫殿。 Ch’in’s mausoleum...
Autocratic and ruthless, Ying Zheng may have been just what China needed to end the period of the Warring States and unify the realm. Known for the burning of books and the execution of recalcitrant scholars, he also laid the foundation of the Great Wall, created a national system of roads...