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| Author | : Yang Liu |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : China |
| ISBN | : 9780980048490 |
"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 | : Frances Wood |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2008-06-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1429933887 |
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 | : Jane Portal |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780674026971 |
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 | : Maurice Cotterell |
| Publisher | : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2004-03-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781591430339 |
When the first emperor of unified China, Ch'in Shi Huangdi, felt his death approaching, he decreed that he be entombed within a pyramid and that his tomb be protected by an army of terracotta figures. Cotterell decodes the emperor's farewell message concealed in the terracotta warriors--a message that reveals the secrets of heaven and hell.
| Author | : Xiuzhen Li |
| Publisher | : British Archaeological Reports (Oxford Limited |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2020-07-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781407316901 |
Over 40,000 lethal bronze weapons were discovered with thousands of terracotta warriors in the tomb complex of the Qin First Emperor (259-210 BC). This book carries out the first systematic and comprehensive study on these weapons to investigate the mass production and labour organisation in early imperial China. The research draws upon extensive measurements, typological analysis and related statistical treatment, as well as a study of the spatial distribution of the bronze weapons. A combination of metrical and spatial data is used to assess the degree of standardisation of the weapons' production, and to evaluate the spatial patterns in the array of the Terracotta Army. This provides further information about the labour organisation behind the production, transportation and placement of weapons as they were moved from the workshop and/or arsenal to the funeral pits. Integrating these insights with inscriptions, tool marks, and chemical analysis, this book fills a gap in the study of mass production, the behaviour of craftspeople, and related imperial logistical organisation in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), marking the most crucial early stage in Chinese political unification.
| Author | : Arlan Dean |
| Publisher | : Children's Press(CT) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780516251240 |
Explores the the army of terra-cotta soliders found at the tomb of China's first emperor Qin Shi Haungdi.
| Author | : Jian Li |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : ART |
| ISBN | : 9780300230567 |
"This catalog accompanies the exhibition Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts"--
| Author | : William Lindesay |
| Publisher | : Odyssey Books & Maps |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2007-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
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 | : Tianchou Fu |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
"Provides fascinating and highly-detailed photographs from the terracotta army site in Xi'an. Discusses significance of warrior dress, stance, and layout adjacent to the tomb itself. Hundreds of full-color photos. One of the best books available on the terracotta warriors."
| Author | : John Man |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2010-10-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1409045617 |
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.
