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[Lin-t’ung] County and city in Shaanxi Province, China, northeast of Xi’an, and site of the mausoleum complex of Qin Shi Huangdi (reg 221–210 bce), the 'First Emperor of Qin,' who unified the Chinese territories in 221 bce. The mausoleum lies near modern Lintong city, east of the site of the Qin capital at Xianyang; the pits associated with it contain the world-renowned life-size terracotta army. The unexcavated tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi is marked by an imposing stepped pyramidal mound (h. c. 45 m) surrounded by a square, gated inner wall and an oblong outer wall c. 6.4 km in circumference. The Han-period (206 bce–ce 220) historian Sima Qian (c. 145–c. 90 bce) wrote about the tomb in the Shiji ('Records of the historian'), recording its construction and noting that it had already been pillaged and burnt in 206 bce by Xiang Yu, a rival of the first Han emperor. The Qin emperor began the mausoleum while he was still only king of the state of Qin and not yet emperor of China. The tomb thus contains a microcosm, an ideal model of the realm over which he had ruled and intended to continue to rule after his death. Some 700,000 people were reputedly conscripted to build it, and it was protected from robbers by devices such as ingenious automatic crossbows and rivers of mercury. The emperor’s childless wives and the workmen who built the mausoleum are supposedly buried with him....