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'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.' The short-lived Qin dynasty unified Chi...

Ancestral ritual in early China was an orchestrated dance between what was present (the offerings and the living) and what was absent (the ancestor...

In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what mad...