The Gathering Storm in the Emperor’s Study In the third year after Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s return to Xianyang, a […]
The Decline and Unexpected Revival of Confucianism For generations after Confucius’s death, his political philosophy had struggled to gain traction […]
The Ominous Silence of Xianyang The winter of 213 BCE descended upon the Qin capital with unusual severity. Snow blanketed […]
The Gathering Storm: Qin’s Northern Frontier Under Threat In the autumn of 215 BCE, as the funeral rites for his […]
The Historical Backdrop: Qin’s Southern Expansion The early 3rd century BCE marked the zenith of the Qin Dynasty’s territorial ambitions. […]
The Fertile Plains of Yingchuan In early May, the endless wheat fields of Yingchuan Commandery shimmered between green and gold, […]
A Fateful Summons from the Emperor In the waning years of the Qin dynasty’s unification of China, a pivotal moment […]
The Ambitious Blueprint of a Unified China In the waning days of a snow-laden winter, Emperor Qin Shi Huang found […]
The Visionary Blueprint of a New Empire In the wake of Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s unification of China in 221 […]
A Monarch’s Birthday in the Whirlwind of Empire On the first day of the first lunar month, as heavy snow […]
From County Clerk to Prisoner: The Origins of a Strange Case In the turbulent years when the Qin state was […]
The Historical Context: A Fractured Land in Need of Unity When Ying Zheng, later known as Qin Shi Huang, first […]
The Gathering Storm in the Hall of Scholars On that fateful afternoon, an electric tension filled the Hall of Scholars. […]
The Fateful Dispatch from the South On the third day of the fifth lunar month, a desperate message reached Xianyang […]
The Weight of Victory: A King’s Exhaustion The moment should have been triumphant. As Ying Zheng, the King of Qin […]
The Rise and Fall of a Warring States Powerhouse Among the dramatic conquests that marked Qin’s unification of China, the […]
The Gathering Storm: Qi on the Eve of Collapse In the winter of 221 BCE, the once-mighty state of Qi […]
The Strategic Context of Qin’s Unification Wars By 225 BCE, the Qin state under King Zheng (later First Emperor) had […]
The Gathering Storm: Historical Context of the Mass Migration As the merchant caravan led by Dun Ruo approached the outskirts […]
The Gathering Storm in Xianyang In the sweltering summer of 221 BCE, two elite cavalry units thundered into the Qin […]
The Strategic Crossroads After the Fall of Chu In the dead of night when Wang Jian’s battlefield report reached Xianyang, […]
The Origins of a Southern Powerhouse Emerging from the dense forests and river valleys of the Yangtze basin, the Chu […]
