Qin Ershi 秦二世

Other names

Family

• Sibling of Fusu (扶蘇)
  prince 公子 · Full siblings
  Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 88, passages 36-37
• Child of First Emperor of Qin (秦始皇)
  prince 公子
  younger son 少子
  Sources vary in certainty · Records of the Grand Historian 88, passages 25, 36; Records of the Grand Historian 48, passage 13
• Sibling of Prince Fusu (公子扶蘇)
  Full siblings
  Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passage 13

Career and standing

• Second Emperor of Qin 秦二世
  Directly stated · Book of Han 1, passage 527
• Second Emperor of Qin
  Directly stated · Book of Han 1, passage 175
• Second Emperor of Qin 二世
  Held throne · Mode speech-report Speaker Chen She (陳涉)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 48, passage 13
• Second Emperor 二世皇帝
  BC 210 喪至咸陽已葬
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 88, passage 48

Places and affiliations

• Qin 秦
  Directly stated · Book of Han 1, passage 527
• Qin 秦
  Relation Ruled
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 38, passage 309
• Polity Qin 秦 · Relation Ruled
  Directly stated · Book of Han 59, passage 23; Book of Han 67, passages 105, 114; Records of the Grand Historian 25, passage 17; Records of the Grand Historian 73, passage 170; Records of the Grand Historian 88, passage 48; Records of the Grand Historian 102, passage 23
• At border regions 邊陲 · Relation Stationed troops at
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 25, passage 17

Works and attributed material

• Edict · Author · With Meng Tian (蒙恬)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 88, passage 75
• Edict · Author · With Meng Yi (蒙毅)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 88, passages 56-59

Events and relationships

• Incurred resentment
  Diplomatic · Actor · At Xiongnu 匈奴
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 25, passage 18
• Reign during
  BC 210 to BC 207 秦二世之時 · Political · Reigning ruler · Organization Meng clan 蒙氏
  Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 73, passage 170
• Stationed armies
  Military · Commander
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 25, passage 17
• Relation Entrusted to · Person Zhao Gao (趙高)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 38, passage 309
• Relation Entrusted power to · Person Zhao Gao (趙高) · Mode historical-example Speaker Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:159:s0133c

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment failed to govern himself; trusted slander; lost state and ancestral temples · Mode quotation Speaker Sima Xiangru (司馬相如)
  Directly stated · Book of Han 67, passages 114-115, 117
• Assessment strong-but-exhausted-by-endless-warfare · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 25, passages 17-19