At the end of Zhou dynasty, many states rivaled for power. Thisis known as the Period of Warring States. Among them wereseven strong ones. These states came about because the emperorsof Zhou annexed territories to relatives and imperial officialsfor them to govern. These people gradually declared themselveskings of independent states. ...

Shang Yang (ca. 390-338 BC) was a Chinese statesman and political philosopher. He was one of the founders of Chinese Legalism and organized the rise to power of the Ch'in dynasty. The real name of Shang Yang was Kung-sun Yang; he was also known as Wei Yang. He was born ...

Qin Shi Huang（秦始皇） Qin Shinhuang, called Yingzheng, was the son of Zhuang Rangwang (some one has said he was the bastard of Li Buwei, a famous figure in China history) He was a great politics, military leader, and the first emperor of China. He enthroned when he was thirteen years old ...

 In 221 B.C.,Chinese were unified for the first time to construct a great country that ended the long era of disunity and warring. In that year the western frontier state of Qin, the most aggressive of the Warring States, subjugated the last of its rival state. Centralization and autarchy were achieved ...