The first emperor : China's Terracotta Army /

The first emperor : China's Terracotta Army / edited by Jane Portal ; with the assistance of Hiromi Kinoshita.

The Terracotta Army is evidence of the organisational power of the Qin Dynasty that unified China in 221 BC. This book unfolds the historical and archaeological context of the Terracotta Warriors, and explores the new research and excavation that has been carried out in the years since the first dis...

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Other Authors: Portal, Jane., Kinoshita, Hiromi.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Qin shi huang, > Emperor of China, > 259 B.C.-210 B.C. > Tomb > Exhibitions.
Terra-cotta sculpture, Chinese > Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D. > Exhibitions.
Excavations (Archaeology) > China > Shaanxi Sheng > Exhibitions.
Shaanxi Sheng (China) > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Table of Contents:
  • The rise of Qin and the military conquest of the warring states
  • The First Emperor and the Qin empire
  • Imperial tours and mountain inscriptions
  • The First Emperor's tomb: the afterlife universe
  • A two-thousand-year-old underground empire.

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