The First Emperor is one of the great villains of Chinese history and it seems therefore an irresistible target for contrarian revisionismhttps://twitter.com/Cybren/status/823649104995766273 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Not all artistic challenges are worth the effort, such as "How do I make the guy who burned most of the books in his country sympathetic"
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"His reign was better than the chaos that preceded it, as evidenced by him burning all the histories that would let us make that comparison"
1:55 PM - 23 Jan 2017
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