Sun Haohui continues to show he's a historical writer of historic proportions. The self-taught historian's nonfiction series The Qin Empire is so popular that the multitudes of zealous fans' questions ...

This course, the second in a collection on Chinese history and culture, addresses how the Qin dynasty conquered China and established a new system of government and how the Han dynasty built a stable, ...

People living under China's first feudal empire, the Qin (221- 207 BC), may have been forced into hard, penal servitude for failing to pay their debts, but they also had a mail service, probably ...

To understand Chinese culture, it is necessary to go back to the very beginning of its civilisation. In this series, we look at the most influential dynasties in Chinese history and how each, with its ...

Can you believe the emperor was buried with the whole of the Qin Empire? Over 100 satellite burial pits and tombs, both large and small, have so far been unearthed. The largest and most attractive is ...

In 221 BC, Ying Zheng, first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, put an end to the 250-odd years of rivalry among the independent principalities during the Warring States Period, and established the first ...