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The first emperor of China [Book] / Frances Wood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Profile Books, 2007.Description: ix, 209 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781846680328
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 931.04092
Other classification:
  • 931.04092
Contents:
Elephants, steamed duck and warring states -- The heart of a tiger or wolf -- The Grand Scribe's Records and the place of the Sleeping Tiger -- The cunning councillor -- Cowboys and Indians or Confucianism and legalism -- The height of legal responsibility -- This species of fortification: the Great Wall -- The buring of the books -- Making everything the same -- The supreme forest and the hall of 10,000 guests -- The drus of immortality -- Sea of mercury, pearl stars and an army of 8,000 men -- The First Emperor and the Great Helmsman.
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Published to coincide with exhibition of the Terracotta Army at the British Museum.

Elephants, steamed duck and warring states -- The heart of a tiger or wolf -- The Grand Scribe's Records and the place of the Sleeping Tiger -- The cunning councillor -- Cowboys and Indians or Confucianism and legalism -- The height of legal responsibility -- This species of fortification: the Great Wall -- The buring of the books -- Making everything the same -- The supreme forest and the hall of 10,000 guests -- The drus of immortality -- Sea of mercury, pearl stars and an army of 8,000 men -- The First Emperor and the Great Helmsman.

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