THE FIRST EMPEROR OF QIN:
BETWEEN LEGEND, SCIENCE, AND NATIONALISM

Bryan K. Miller

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Bryan K. Miller, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
No. 43 Ho-chiang Street 6F, 106 Taipei City, TAIWAN, R.O.C

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NOTES

1. This English translation comes from Anne Birrell's New Songs for a Jade Terrace (1982), but these songs can be found in a number of early sources, as far back as the third century A.D. (Waldron 1990).
2. All of the English translations of Chinese newspaper and periodical articles referred to in this paper, except those from China Reconstructs, appear in The First Emperor of China (1975), Yuning Li, ed.
3. This phrase seems to best summarize one of the main goals of the increasingly nationalistic aims of the Chinese Communist Party after 1949, and the "multinational" characteristic is especially noteworthy, considering the CCP's desire to accommodate and, at least ostensibly, appease the numerous ethnic minorities living in China.
4. This myth of seeing the Great Wall from the moon began well before space exploration programs had even begun (see Waldron 1990:212-214).
5. c.f. Qian 1993:63-64.
6. Many insights into the events surrounding the discovery of the Qin underground army are indebted to personal conversations with Ye Wa, who was present in the Xi'an area during the early discovery and excavations.