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As a historical figure, Qin Shi Huang was the founder of the Qin Dynasty, which ruled over China from 221 to 206 B.C.E. Emperor Qin was widely known for his violent method of rule, a history that is reflected in the novel. For example, he orders several hundred soldiers to be executed simply because they fail to perform a complicated flag-waving maneuver correctly. Qin also harbors immense anger and antipathy toward the West, foreshadowing an East-West divide that the novel explores in a Cold War context.
Emperor Qin Shi Huang Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Emperor Qin Shi Huang or refer to Emperor Qin Shi Huang . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 17
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Below them, a magnificent phalanx of thirty million Qin shoulders was arrayed on the ground. The entire formation fit inside a square six kilometers on each side. As the sun rose, the phalanx remained still like a giant carpet made of 30 million terra-cotta warriors. But when a flock of birds wandered above the phalanx, the birds immediately felt the potential for death from below and scattered anxiously in chaos. Wang performed some computations in his head and realized that even if the entire population of earth were arranged into such a phalanx, the whole formation would fit inside the Huangpu District of Shanghai. Though it was powerful, the phalanx also revealed the fragility of civilization.
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Emperor Qin Shi Huang Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Emperor Qin Shi Huang or refer to Emperor Qin Shi Huang . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 17
Quotes
Below them, a magnificent phalanx of thirty million Qin shoulders was arrayed on the ground. The entire formation fit inside a square six kilometers on each side. As the sun rose, the phalanx remained still like a giant carpet made of 30 million terra-cotta warriors. But when a flock of birds wandered above the phalanx, the birds immediately felt the potential for death from below and scattered anxiously in chaos. Wang performed some computations in his head and realized that even if the entire population of earth were arranged into such a phalanx, the whole formation would fit inside the Huangpu District of Shanghai. Though it was powerful, the phalanx also revealed the fragility of civilization.
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