China's first emperor and his terracotta warriors /
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| Author / Creator: | Wood, Frances, 1948- |
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| Uniform title: | First emperor of China |
| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : St. Martin's Press, 2008. |
| Description: | ix, 209 p. : ill. , map ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7244158 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: elephants, steamed duck and warring states
- The heart of a tiger or wolf
- The grand scribe's records and the place of the sleeping tiger
- The cunning councillor
- Cowboys and indians or Confucianism and Legalism
- The height of legal responsibility
- This species of fortification: the Great Wall
- The burning of the books
- Making everything the same
- The supreme forest and the hall of 10,000 guests
- The drugs of immortality
- Seas of mercury, pearl stars and an army of 8,000 men
- The First Emperor and the Great Helmsman.
