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years later, at the 7th CPC Congress, Mao was praising the first
Emperor, when Lin Biao interrupted to point out that the Emperor had,
after all, burned the books and buried scholars alive. Mao

The Confucian scholar Fu-sheng, who as a nonagenarian was active in
restoring ancient texts, during the Han Dynasty

answered: ‘So what; he buried 460 scholars, we’ve buried 46,000.’ One-upmanship in
‘Cultural’ Revolutions? Some modern scholars have tried to show that the burying alive
of scholars is a later story put about when the first Emperor had come to symbolise the
cruel and bad ruler.
See also Bo-shi, Fox, Xiu-cai.

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