Lü Buwei

Lü Buwei

▪ Chinese statesman
died 235 BCE, Sichuan province, China

      Chinese statesman who was minister of the state of Qin, one of the small feudal kingdoms into which China was divided between 770 and 221 BCE. Qin, in northwestern China, under Lü's clever management, engulfed many of its neighbouring states, and by the end of Lü's ministry China was well on the way to unification.

      Originally a merchant, Lü used his influence to have one of the princes of Qin declared the heir apparent to the throne. And when the prince fell in love with one of Lü's concubines, Lü relinquished her, even though she was rumoured to be pregnant at the time. In return for these favours, the prince, when he became ruler of Qin, made Lü minister of state, a position he continued to hold after the ruler died and the concubine's son, Ying Zheng (Shihuangdi), formally acceded to the throne in 246 BCE.

      Lü was implicated in a revolt against the boy emperor in 238 BCE and was banished from the capital. Accused of involvement in a second plot, he was again banished, this time to the present-day central province of Sichuan, where he is said to have ended his life by poison. Ying Zheng, calling himself Shihuangdi (“First Sovereign Emperor”), completed the unification of China begun by Lü and founded the Qin dynasty (221–207 BCE).

      While serving as minister, Lü had engaged a number of scholars to produce an encyclopaedia of knowledge. The result was the first expertly arranged full-length book, the famous Lüshi chunqiu (“The Spring and Autumn [Annals] of Mr. Lü”), a compendium of folklore and pseudoscientific and Daoist writings.

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