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Author : R. W. L. Guisso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773723702
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (237 download)
Download or read book The First Emperor of China written by R. W. L. Guisso and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sima Qian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199574391
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The First Emperor written by Sima Qian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: 2007. Reissued 2009.
Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909771116
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The First Emperor of China written by Jonathan Clements and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Frances Wood
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429933887
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors written by Frances Wood and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the ancient Chinese ruler delves into his life and times, chronicling his immortal achievements and reconsidering his legacy. Unifier or destroyer, lawmaker 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—an astonishing army of statues buried with the emperor. 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 : Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295750235
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China written by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Frances Wood
Publisher : Profile Books(GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The First Emperor of China written by Frances Wood and published by Profile Books(GB). This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was The First Emperor of China a Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant?
Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210078
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Augustus written by Adrian Goldsworthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jane Portal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026971
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The First Emperor written by Jane Portal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peggy Pancella
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781403437044
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Qin Shi Huangdi written by Peggy Pancella and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of Qin Shi Huangdi's life, as well as his influence on history and the world.
Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812970586
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Augustus written by Anthony Everitt and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Lindesay
Publisher : Odyssey Books & Maps
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China written by William Lindesay and published by Odyssey Books & Maps. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, near Xi'an in central China, villagers chanced upon what has become one of the world's most astonishing archaeological finds--an 8,000-man army in battle-ready formation, each warrior a life-size figure in pottery made over 2,200 years ago.
Author : Jian Li
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300230567
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Terracotta Army written by Jian Li and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This catalog accompanies the exhibition Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts"--
Author : Yang Liu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980048490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (484 download)
Download or read book China's Terracotta Warriors written by Yang Liu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With contributions from leading scholars, this fully illustrated catalogue represents a panoramic view of Qin artistic, military, and administrative achievements under the powerful First Emperor, who unified China in 221 BCE. In addition, it examines the period of Chinese history preceding the emperor's reign and the role of earlier Qin rulers in the evolution of a small state into a superpower."--Provided by publisher.
Author : John Man
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409045617
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Terracotta Army written by John Man and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries of all time. 6,000 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China - each is individually carved, and they are thought to represent real members of the emperor's army. This is the remarkable story of their creation, the man who ordered them made, their rediscovery and their continuing legacy as a pre-eminent symbol of Chinese greatness. The First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was king of the Chinese state of Qin and the first man to unite China into a single empire. He built the first Great Wall and brought a single written script to the whole country. He was an inspired and ruthless ruler, but one also beset by paranoia and a desire for immortality. He is still considered the founding father of the modern state of China. On his death in 210 BC he was buried in a giant mausoleum near modern-day Xi'an. Legends of the treasures contained therein still tantalize the imagination today. In 1974 local farmers digging a well for water broke through into the burial mound and found the first of the Terracotta warriors. Further excavations have revealed the full splendour of the buried army. But the majority of the mausoleum is yet to be opened, including the burial chamber itself - myth tells us that amongst the treasures yet to be uncovered is a vast map of the First Emperor's kingdom with rivers marked with channels of flowing mercury. The story of the First Emperor and the Terracotta Army is a fascinating one, not least for the discoveries yet to be made.
Author : Erica Tongson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479795372
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)
Download or read book The First Emperor written by Erica Tongson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two thousand years ago in ancient China, a warlord had just unified the country – with the help of two brothers, Hsufu and Hsufei – establishing the Qin Dynasty and calling himself Qinshihuang, the First Emperor. Seeing Qinshihuang’s vanity and brutality, Hsufu used a deceit to make his way to the east, founding Japan and becoming the first emperor there. Hsufei continued to serve the country with loyalty, as an inspirational warrior as well as a minder of Qinshihuang. Ultimately, before his demise which he knew was inevitable, the First Emperor took Hsufei’s advice to preserve himself and his warriors in mausoleums, wishing that some days his empire would be revived. Hsufei, among thousands of his fellow men, stayed buried deep underneath the soil until 1978, when stone statues were discovered by archaeologists. In the form of a stone figurine, Hsufei was somehow removed to the residence of Deng Xiaoping, who had just been reinstated as a Communist Party leader to help lead the country after the death of Mao Zedong, the founder of the socialist new China. Hsufei, aided by a potion of immortality taken before his burial two thousand years ago, resurrected right before Deng’s eyes. It was the start of a mysterious voyage for both of them, at the critical transformation stages of the country, the journey ending in the midst of the turbulent events in the spring of 1989. In the course of Hsufei’s eventful second life, stories pertaining to fictitious and real characters were intertwined and unfolded, with Hsufei being in the central narrative and Deng the de facto protagonist, revealing the duo’s secret collaboration in countering, on the one hand, the Party left-wingers who opposed the opening up of China, and a driving force that strived for the overturn of the Communist regime, on the other. On fictional construction, these historical issues are raised and addressed: why Japan invaded China and brutalized Chinese people during World War II; how Deng came to devise the economic reforms and future paths of China when he took power in 1978; what prompted him to regain the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the British; and what happened that led to the June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Author : Roberto Ciarla
Publisher : White Star Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788854406278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Eternal Army written by Roberto Ciarla and published by White Star Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast army of over 7000 terracotta statues of soldiers surrounds the tomb of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty in the Shannix province in northwestern China. This book answers many of the questions that have intrigued travelers, archeologists, and students of Chinese culture since the site was discovered in 1974.
Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312381127
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (811 download)
Download or read book China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors written by Frances Wood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kina under den første kejser: al modstand blev knust, bøger blev brændt og han fik fremstillet sin hær i terracotta, så den kunne blive begravet sammen med ham
