Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia's article on the Qin dynasty's burning of books and burying of scholars, community-edited. Reliable for the two-phase 213 BCE book burning and 212 BCE scholar execution ordered by Qin Shi Huang on Chancellor Li Si's proposal, targeting poetry, non-Qin historical records and rival philosophical schools to entrench Legalism; and for the article's own naming of the modern historiographical dispute over the traditional account, including doubt that the executed scholars were specifically Confucian (the school had not yet formed as such), doubt over the traditional 460-plus casualty figure (uncorroborated before Sima Qian's Records, written more than a century later), and doubt that the character keng, usually rendered "buried alive," originally meant anything more than "pit."