Great Biography of Emperor Qin Shi Huang

Author: An Zuozhang / Meng Xiangcai
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This manuscript, presented to the readers, strives to build upon the research achievements of predecessors and contemporary scholars. Guided by historical materialism in Marxism, it takes the form of a biography to evaluate the merits and demerits of Qin Shi Huang's life, revealing how a millennium-old opportunity transformed a historical into a temporal titan who unified China and achieved glorious deeds. How did his wisdom, strategy, courage, talent, and the traits of grandiose ambition and autocratic stubbornness leave their indelible mark on the era? Moreover, how did his later oppressive and foolish policies, contrary to the trend and the will of the people, lead this seemingly invincible empire toward collapse? "It rose with vigor, it fell suddenly." Through the rise and fall of Qin Shi Huang and his empire, history demonstrates this truth: the era, with its unalterable iron laws, calls and creates heroes who, while it also unrelentingly casts those who defy historical currents into the sea of death, revealing the cruelty and indifference of historical dialectics that turn once-glorious figures into mere jokes ("From greatness to absurdity is but a step" - Napoleon). This book, drawing on the research achievements of predecessors and contemporary scholars and guided by historical materialism in Marxism, takes the form of a biography to evaluate the merits and demerits of Qin Shi Huang's life, revealing how a millennium-old opportunity transformed a historical into a temporal titan who unified China and achieved glorious deeds. How did his wisdom, strategy, courage, talent, and the traits of grandiose ambition and autocratic stubbornness leave their indelible mark on the era? Moreover, how did his later oppressive and foolish policies, contrary to the trend and the will of the people, lead this seemingly invincible empire toward collapse.