The First Emperor of China

ISBN-13: 9781138896437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str.

Li Yu-Ning

Opis

This title was first published in 1975.

Spis treści

Introduction, A note on the translations, The age in which Ch’in Shih-huang was born, The struggle between two lines in the ideological sphere during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods, The preparations for unification, The struggle between restoration and counter restoration in the course of the founding of the Ch’in dynasty, The success of unification, The establishment of a new system for the consolidation of Unification, The struggle between emphasizing the present while slighting the past’’ and using the past to criticize the present’’, A brief discussion on Ch’in Shih-huang’s violence, Ch’in Shih-huang’s book-burning as seen from the bamboo slips unearthed in Ying-ch'ueh-shan, The role of Ch’in Shih-huang in progressive historical change, What is the origin of the wailing of Meng Chiang-nu at the Great Wall’’? On reading Liu Tsung-yuan’s Essay on Feudalism’’, Why did Lin Piao revile Ch'in Shih-huang? A refutation of some Confucian fallacies concerning the causes of the downfall of the Ch’in dynasty, On the lesson of the experience of the Ch’in dynasty's downfall, On Li Ssu, On the black-headed people.

O autorze

Li Yu-Ning