Empire Beneath the Loess

Author: Duan Mingdi
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book originates from a series titled "Silent Splendor" on CCTV Channel One's program "Journey of Discovery." This collection has been supplemented with additional content. First, it provides a detailed description of Qin Shi Huang's early life; second, it supplements the history of suppressing the six states; to deepen readers' understanding of this period, it also adds content related to military technology. Is the history we see factual? What really happened behind the forgotten, concealed by cunning, and buried by time? In April 1978, in the U.S. humanities magazine National Geographic, a series introducing the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang was published over nearly ten pages. The article was passionate and magnificent, calling the mausoleum's underground palace the "mysterious palace of the East," accompanied by numerous illustrations filled with the romantic imagination of Westerners. Faced with an ancient civilization that has endured for thousands of years, the perspective of this magazine seems like Marco Polo entering the Yuan Dynasty's capital with a naive and dreamlike sentiment.