Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

The wealth of the geographical literature of China, for instance ... work recently published on the Oriental nations known to the ancient Chinese, says that, among all the literatures of the ...

geography, history, astronomy, animals, plants, medicine, religion, anthropology, oceanography and other subjects, leading it to be regarded as an encyclopedia in ancient China. Up till now ...