Qin Terracotta Army: Treasures of Lintong (National Museums & Monuments of Ancient China Ser.)) - Hardcover

Wenli Zhang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856674508 ISBN 13: 9780856674501

Verlag: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Wenli Zhang

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Reseña del editor

Lintong was the burial ground of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor to unify China in a series of bloody wars from 246 BC to 221 BC. Subsequently he laid the groundwork, on strictly Confucian principles, for the following government of China, even though his own dynasty barely outlasted his death in 210 BC. About 700,000 convicts worked in the tomb for 38 years, even after the Emperor's death. The aim was to build a complete army of warriors and horses in terracotta to serve the Emperor in the underworld after his death. The scale of the enterprise was staggering. Spreading out of the central burial mound at the foot of the Lishan Mountains, over 7000 terracotta soldiers and horses, and countless bronzes, have already been discovered since peasants found the site in 1974. This volume examines these treasures of Lintong, their history and how they were made.

Biografía del autor

Zhang Wenli is a director at the Terracotta Museum, Lintong.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0856674508
• ISBN 13: 9780856674501
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96