By 221 B.C. he had unified a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin. During his rule, Qin standardized coins, weights, and measures ...

By 221 BCE, the final kingdom fell, and Zheng proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First Sovereign Emperor of the Qin Dynasty". He called the united empire "Qin", which many academics believe is ...

Sima wasn't afraid to make harsh judgments. This is what he said about the young Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of a unified China who ruled from 246 BCE to 210 BCE: "With his puffed-out chest ...

No doubt thousands of statues still remain to be unearthed at this archaeological site, which was not discovered until 1974. Qin (d. 210 B.C.), the first unifier of China, is buried, surrounded by the ...

Amid the many public ceremonies being held across the Taiwan Straits honoring Huangdi, or the Yellow Emperor, scheduled for the upcoming Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, a legal ordinance ...

Qin Shi Huangdi, or the First Emperor of Qin, is usually credited with the unification of China. However, the Qin Dynasty collapsed within a couple of years of his death, and China fell into ...