Sima Qian was born around 145BCE during the Han dynasty ... This is what he said about the young Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of a unified China who ruled from 246 BCE to 210 BCE: "With ...

(Did the Great Wall of China work?) An 18th-century painted album leaf depicts events chronicled by second-century B.C. historian Sima Qian, in which Qin Shi Huangdi burned Confucian texts and ...

The mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China ... unusually high levels of mercury around the site, supporting Sima Qian’s account. Caution drives archaeologists in their work ...

Many of the extraordinary properties of carbon nanotubes 1 depend on their diameter. The smallest carbon nanotubes have been associated with the smallest fullerenes 2, with nanotube diameters of 7 ...

Ambassador Xiao Qian said the 99-year lease for the Port of Darwin in the Northern Territory was awarded to Chinese company Landbridge in 2015 “through an open and transparent bidding process”, ...

However, nearly no one knows that it was also a capital of the Qian Zhao (304-329), Qian Qin (351-394), Hou Qin (384-417), Western Wei (535-556), and Northern Zhou (557-581) dynasties, which were ...

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Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) historian Sima Qian once lamented there were few historical records about the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). "What a pity! There's only Qinji (Records of Qin), but it ...

Sima Qian once studied with Dong ... it also can be said that unification is great. About the "Unity", in the Qin and Han dynasties, ideologists finally integrated the theories of the various schools ...