The Emperor Who Burned History: How China's First Emperor Tried to Erase the Past — and Built an Eternal Monument to Himself Instead - Couverture souple

Hillman, Jonathan C.

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ISBN 13 : 9798193149590

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The man remembered for trying to destroy China's entire written history also built himself a tomb so vast, so elaborate, and so guarded by mercury that no one has fully opened it in over two thousand years.


In 213 BC, Qin Shi Huang — the ruler who had just unified China for the first time in history — ordered the destruction of a carefully targeted class of historical and philosophical texts. The following year, hundreds of people were reportedly executed. The story became legend: a tyrant who tried to erase the past itself.


But the real story is stranger, and more interesting, than the legend.


Inside this book, you'll discover:

• Why the man who ordered the burning may have unintentionally preserved the very texts he targeted
• The single historian, writing over a century later, whose account shaped everything the world believes about this event
• The twist almost no one tells you: the fire usually blamed for finishing the job may not have been Qin Shi Huang's at all
• What the Terracotta Army — discovered by accident in 1974 — actually reveals about the scale of the Qin state
• Why modern scientists, armed with 21st-century tools, still won't open the emperor's own sealed tomb
• How to separate what the ancient sources claim from what archaeology can actually prove
  
  
  This is the first volume in The Lost Archive, a series uncovering the true history behind humanity's great acts of destruction, suppression, and disappearance — the books that were burned, the records that vanished, and the truths that outlived the people who tried to erase them.
  
  
  The emperor wanted permanence. He got almost none of the kind he was after. His dynasty collapsed within years. His political system didn't survive one generation. But the tomb did. The story did. Find out what actually happened — and what we still don't know.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798193149590
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 58
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