Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one ... historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after ...

multi-ethnic feudal state in Chinese history - the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). He was called Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin." He standardized the written script, weights and measures ...

Immediately after his death, China fell into disarray. Within three years, the Qin Dynasty was over. But the emperor's legacy lived on in his construction projects and a strong centralised ...

In 221BC, the Qin dynasty unified China. But what was so significant about this event that occurred over 2,200 years ago? After all, the Chinese nation splintered and reunified multiple times ...

BEIJING--China named veteran diplomat Wang Yi its new foreign minister on Tuesday, removing former rising star Qin Gang after a mysterious one-month absence from duties barely half a year into the ...

Many people know about the army of life-sized terracotta statues buried with Chinese first ... reign of the first Han dynasty emperor Gaozu. Gaozu succeeded the emperor Qin Shi Huang after a ...