The Tiger of Ch'in - The Dramatic Emergence of China as a Nation by Leonard Cottrell (1962).pdf

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The
dramatic
ol
China
as
a
nation
TTOC
Till
TieEK
01
CH'IN
Leonrt
In
the
third
century
B.c
v
Shih
Huang
Ti,
the
"Tiger
of
Ch'in,"
forged
the
war
ring
states
of
China
into
a united
kingdom
and
proclaimed
himself
the
"First
Emper
or"
of
the
realm.
whip
could
halt
Legend
has
it
that
his
the
Yellow
River
and
that
his
horse
could
run
a
thousand
miles
a
day.
Colorful,
ruthless,
a
man
of
violence
and
vanity,
as
well
as
a
brilliant
administrator,
he
climaxed
his
reign
with
one
of
the
mightiest
engineering
feats
of
times:
the
Great
Wall
of
China.
ancient
This
is
the
amazing
but
little-known
story
of
a
great
warlord,
who
adorned
the
capital
city
of
his
empire
with
270
palaces,
many
of
them
replicas
of
those
in
feudal
states
he
had
captured.
It
is
a
tale
filled
with
absorbing
accounts
of
court
(Continued
on
back
flap)
Jacket
design
by
Ben
Feder,
Inc.
951
C85t
Cottrell
,
Leonard.
The
Tiger
of
Ch'in;
the
dramatic
emergence
of
[1962]
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C85t
Cottrell
The
Tiger
of
Ch'in
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