ARCL 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tumulus, Xiang Yu, Sima Qian
13 Dec 2016
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Qin shih huang ti - february 18th 259 bc - september 10 210 bc. An event of universal significance, first unification of the chinese territory by a centralized state led by a centralized monarch. Covered an immense area of land, not just the mausoleum: the construction landscape. People with administrators, craftsmen and laborers: the ritual landscape. Ritual experts and servants to prepare offerings and maintenance: landscape of the afterlife, invisible to the living, buried underground. The court, administration and the army in the realm of the afterlife. Dead and living part of a single community. How to reverse fears of death and make them compatible with claim to be a universal and eternal ruler. Build a great tomb to ensure his power on the journey into and throughout eternity. To ensure posthumous existence were microcosm of the living (known) world (cid:312)dead shall be treated as living(cid:313) Tomb is not a model but an analogue of life.
