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Li Si

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Li Si

 or Li Ssu

(born 280 BC?, Chu state, central China—died 208 BC, Xianyang, Shaanxi province) Minister of the Qin dynasty in China who utilized the ideas of Hanfeizi to make the Qin the first centralized Chinese empire. His ordering of the “Qin bibliocaust”—the burning of all books—earned him the opprobrium of future generations of Confucian scholars.



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