By Sima Qian, Raymond Dawson, K. E. Brashier
"The following 12 months Qin unified all below Heaven and the name of August Emperor used to be instantly adopted." The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until eventually 1911. the intense tale of the 1st Emperor, founding father of the dynasty, is instructed within the Historical Records of Sima Qian, the Grand Historiographer and the main well-known chinese language historian. He describes the Emperor's start and the assassination test on his lifestyles, in addition to the political and infrequently brutal occasions that resulted in the founding of the dynasty and its aftermath. Sima Qian recounts the construction of the nice Wall, the "burning of the books", and the development of the 1st Emperor's fantastic tomb, a tomb now international recognized because the discovery of the terracotta warriors in 1974. Sima Qian's love of anecdote guarantees that his background is rarely uninteresting, and Raymond Dawson's fluent translation captures his full of life and bright variety.
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Crown Prince Dan was terrified and so he implored Jing Ke. ’ ‘Even if Your Highness had not spoken,’ said Jing Ke, ‘your servant wanted to pay you a visit. If I make the journey now but do not have evidence of good faith, the King of Qin An Assassination Attempt 17 will be quite unapproachable. But as for General Fan, the King of Qin has offered 1,000 catties of gold and a city of 10,000 households for him. ’ Knowing that the Crown Prince could not bear to go along with this, he then went and saw Fan Yuqi in private.
Beasley and E. G. ), Historians of China and Japan (London, 1961). Editions of the Historical Records The Grand Scribe’s Records in nine volumes, ed. William H. Nienhauser, Jr. (Bloomington, In. 1994–in progress). Critical studies on the development of the Qin state The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC, eds. Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy (Cambridge, 1999). xxxviii Select Bibliography Lothar von Falkenhausen, ‘Mortuary Behavior in Pre-Imperial Qin: A Religious Interpretation’, Religion and Chinese Society vol.
That General Fan, at large in the world in a desperate situation, put himself into my care, and I certainly will not, just because I am persecuted by a powerful Qin, abandon a relationship with someone I have taken pity on and hand him over to the Xiongnu. This is an absolutely crucial time for me. ’ Ju Wu said: ‘Intending to seek peace while one does dangerous things, seeking good fortune while one is constructing disaster, feeling deep resentment while one is making shallow plans, binding oneself to future association with a single person and not concerning oneself with the great harm which will befall the state, this is what is meant by “assisting disaster by building up a stock of resentment”.
