Scholars in the Han Dynasty summed up the pre-Qin philosophy in "nine genres and 10 schools." At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), the notion that "heaven is dead" prevailed ...

multi-ethnic feudal state in Chinese history — the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.). He called himself Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin." He standardized the written script, weights and measures ...

According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after taking the throne. More than 700,000 laborers worked on ...

Zheng governed his vast empire using Legalism, a philosophy that says that humans ... Within three years, the Qin Dynasty was over. But the emperor's legacy lived on in his construction projects ...

Like almost every country, especially those spanning vast territories, China went through a unification process that ...