The First Emperor’s Tomb and the Terra Cotta Warriors

(Includes materials covered in course) It may also be useful to look at the topic Tombs and pre-Buddhist beliefs about the afterlife

  • Ledderose, Lothar. Ten Thousand Things : Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1998. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • NOVA. “Emperor’s Ghost Army.” Produced by Ian Bremner. Directed by Lion Television Ltd. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2014. Online Video. (Link)
  • Rawson, Jessica. “The First Emperor’s Tomb: The Afterlife Universe”. In The First Emperor, edited by J. Portal, 114-151. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2007. (PDF)
  • Riegel, Jeffrey, “Archaeology of the First Emperor’s Tomb” (2 parts). Lectures 3 and 4 in the series Arts of Asia, by Asian Art Museum.

 

  • Primary source: Sima Qian, “Basic Annals of Qin”. In Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), translated by Burton Watson. New York: Renditions-Columbia Univeristy Press, 1993. (Google doc)