Burning of books and burying of scholars
GPTKB entity
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:historical_event
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| gptkbp:alsoKnownAs |
gptkb:焚書坑儒
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| gptkbp:booksBurned |
gptkb:historical_documents
gptkb:philosophy gptkb:poetry |
| gptkbp:date |
213–212 BCE
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| gptkbp:debatedBy |
modern historians
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| gptkbp:exemptedBooks |
books on agriculture
books on divination books on forestry books on medicine |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Burning of books and burying of scholars
|
| gptkbp:involves |
Confucian scholars
classical texts |
| gptkbp:legacy |
symbol of cultural repression
|
| gptkbp:location |
gptkb:China
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| gptkbp:notableVictim |
Confucian scholars
|
| 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
loss of ancient texts |
| gptkbp:significance |
major act of censorship in Chinese history
|
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Qin_Shi_Huang
gptkb:Hundred_Schools_of_Thought gptkb:Li_Si |
| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
5
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