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Episode #110- Who Was The First Emperor of China? (Part I)

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Kuan's Critique of the First Emperor of the Han Dynasty

Many experts believe that sima quan's personal experience of cruelty at the hands of the woo emperor influenced the way he wrote his history. It could be that Simaquan used china's first emperor as a type of historical caricature of his own present leader. He may have exaggerated certain events, printed rumors as fact and generally embellished the story to make hefirst emperor look worse. The point is that projecting your criticisms of the present into the past is a long and honored tradition in history writing.

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