Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars
GPTKB entity
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:historical_event
|
| gptkbp:booksBurned |
gptkb:historical_documents
gptkb:philosophy gptkb:poetry |
| gptkbp:criticizedFor |
later Confucian scholars
|
| gptkbp:depictedIn |
gptkb:Records_of_the_Grand_Historian
|
| gptkbp:excludes |
books on agriculture
books on divination books on forestry books on medicine |
| gptkbp:heldBy |
213 BCE
|
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars
|
| gptkbp:involves |
books
Confucian scholars |
| gptkbp:legacy |
gptkb:historical_event
cultural loss symbol of censorship |
| gptkbp:location |
gptkb:China
|
| gptkbp:notableVictim |
Confucian scholars
|
| gptkbp:numberOfScholarsBuried |
approximately 460
|
| gptkbp:occurredIn |
gptkb:Qin_dynasty
|
| gptkbp:order |
gptkb:Qin_Shi_Huang
|
| gptkbp:purpose |
suppress intellectual dissent
|
| gptkbp:relatedTo |
gptkb:Buddhism
gptkb:Legalism |
| gptkbp:resultedIn |
execution of scholars
destruction of classical texts |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Suppression_of_the_Hundred_Schools_of_Thought
|
| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
7
|