Reflections | When centuries of Chinese knowledge were destroyed by warlord who burned a city
- Posted on September 26, 2026
- By South China Morning Post
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Reflections | When centuries of Chinese knowledge were destroyed by warlord who burned a city
Xiang Yu’s razing of the Qin capital Xianyang, which left libraries full of vital texts in ruin, was echoed centuries later in Warsaw.
