China: its history and culture, William Scott Morton, Charlton M. Lewis, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005, ISBN 978-0-07-141279-7, ... The dramatic conquest of the ancient China of separate kingdoms was carried through by the state of Qin with dispatch and completed by 221 BC ...
Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party, Lawrence R. Sullivan, Scarecrow Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-7225-7, ... 'Burning books and burying scholars alive' ('Fenshukengru'). This was a phrase that originated with the tyrannical acts of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang (221–209 BC), who attempted to destroy the original Confucian texts ...
Societies, Networks, and Transitions, Volume I: To 1500: A Global History, Craig A. Lockard, Cengage Learning, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4390-8535-6, ... Late Zhou political turmoil ended when the Qin dynasty (221-206 BCE) conquered the other states and implemented repressive Legalist ideas ... Given this unification, the name Qin is fittingly the origin of the Western name for China ...
