In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

Dujiangyan Water-Releasing Festival kicked off on April 4 in Dujiangyan in Southwest China's Sichuan province, attracting ...

A newly discovered rectangular chariot and horse pit in Baoji, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has provided key evidence that the Qin state had already established a tradition of chariot and horse ...

In 1968, when Rawson joined the British Museum, she was tasked with cataloging probably thousands of ceramics and jades from ...

Immediately after his death, China fell into disarray. Within three years, the Qin Dynasty was over. But the emperor's legacy lived on in his construction projects and a strong centralised ...

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Just as Qin’s conquest led to a brutal and short-lived dynasty that soon collapsed, a Russian victory in Ukraine would lead to an unstable and dangerous new world order. It would signal to other ...

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Sima Qian was born around 145BCE during the Han dynasty. He was the ... 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 ...