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13 total sentences available.
The Chinese emperor who oversaw the building of the Great Wall famously used his power to stop published information. Qin Shi Huang ordered the burning of thousands of books on subjects he wanted to keep from the people. He even had hundreds of scholars executed for refusing to give up their book collections.
Source: tatoeba (6993388)
Meanwhile, Jiang Qin distracted Jiang Feng's older brother Yan Daxia.
Source: tatoeba (8637423)
The first lute was invented during the Qin dynasty.
Source: tatoeba (9402015)
More than 2,000 years old, this statue is one of the clay cavalrymen who once guarded the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi. The warrior and his horse now stand at the entrance to the National Geographic Museum in Washington, and are among the largest number of Chinese terra-cotta figures ever to travel to the United States.
Source: tatoeba (12271892)
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Closest matches include ch'in, ch'in dynasty, china, qin dynasty.
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