《中国思想家评传》简明读本：秦始皇

TheCollectionofCriticalBiographiesofChineseThinkers，underthegeneraleditorshipofthelatehonorarypresidentofNanjingUniversity，ProfessorKuangYaming，isthelargest-scaleprojectofresearchmaterialsonChinesethinkersundertakensincethebeginningofthetwentiethcentury.Standingontheshouldersofthisgreatmanandother200well-knownChineseprofessors，thiscollectionofconciseChinese-Englishversionisnotonlybasedonaprofoundacademicfoundation，butalsoexhibitsabrandnewfeaturewhichisthevirtueofexplainingtheprofoundinasimpleway，henceleadingreaderstomasteryofthecontents;italsoincorporatesarefinedprincipleofselection，asimplemodeofevaluationandcommentary，andamovingnarrationofthestoriesandtheirwisdom.EmperorQinShihuangconqueredothersixstatestorealizetheauthenticunificationofChinainhistoryforthefirsttime.Iron-handedlyhereformed，constructedhisimperialarchitecture，expandedthefrontierandpromotedculturalcommunityandpsychologicalrecognitionforChinese.Heisaterminatoroftheoldhistoryandacreatorofthenewera.