According to Qian the important issue was not whether China had an aircraft carrier, but what it did with it.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian by Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, the practice was started by Duke Wu, the tenth ruler of Qin, who had 66 people buried with him in 678 BC.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, written by Sima Qian during the next dynasty and avowedly hostile to Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor was not the actual son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin.

According to historian Sima Qian ( 145 – 90 BC ), work on this mausoleum began in 246 BC soon after Emperor Qin ascended the throne ( then aged 13 ), and the full construction later involved 700, 000 workers.

According to Zhang Qian, the Yuezhi were defeated by the rising Xiongnu empire and fled westward, driving away the Saka ( Sai ).

According to some accounts, King Qian of Zhao, ordered the execution of Li Mu and relieved Sima Shang from his duties, due to faulty advice from disloyal court officials and Qin infiltrators.

According to the 2nd century BC historical text Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, the Qin state traced its origin to Zhuanxu, one of the Five Emperors in ancient times.

According to the founding myths of Qin recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian by Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, Feizi descended from the mythical Yellow Emperor and his grandson and successor Zhuanxu.

According to Yang Jiang, the successful production of several of her plays inspired Qian to write a full length novel.

According to legends recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, the royal family of Chu descended from the mythical Yellow Emperor and his grandson and successor emperor Zhuanxu.

According to Sima Qian, its rulers claimed to be descended from Yu the Great.

According to the Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian ( who interpreted Gonghe as ' joint harmony ' in his Records of the Grand Historian ), during the Gonghe regency, the Zhou Dynasty was ruled jointly by two dukes — the Duke of Zhou ( not to be confused with the first and most well-known Duke of Zhou, who must have been his ancestor ) and the Duke of Shao ( 召公 — similarly, not to be confused with the first and most well-known Duke of Shao ).

According to Sima Qian, Confucius said: " The disciples who received my instructions, and could themselves comprehend them, were seventy-seven individuals.

According to Sima Qian, he was fifteen years younger than Confucius, but fifty years younger, according to the ' Narratives of the School ,' which latter authority is followed in ' The Annals of the Empire.

According to the historian Sima Qian, Wei had done this to give his old friend Gongsun Ao, who had recently been stripped of his title, a chance to win a major battle and be re-promoted.

According to Maya Lin, art should be an act of every individual willing to say something new and that which is not quite familiar.

According to Lin Carter in Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy, fantasy worlds, by their nature, contain some element of magic ( paranormal ).

According to legend, Lin Moniang was born on March 23, 960 ( during the early Northern Song Dynasty ) as the seventh daughter of Lin Yuan ( 林愿 ) on Meizhou Island, Fujian.

According to legend, Lin Moniang's father and brothers were fishermen.

According to Otto Braun, Lin was " politically ... a blank sheet on which Mao could write as he pleased " during this period.

According to the Chinese government, Lin Biao was made aware that Mao no longer trusted him after the 9th Central Committee, and he harbored a strong desire to seize supreme power.

According to this study, Lin had attempted to contact the Kuomintang in Taiwan on two separate occasions shortly before his death.

According to Zhang, Lin Biao had become extremely passive and inactive by 1971.

According to the official Party verdict, Lin and Jiang were singled out for blame because they led intra-Party cliques which took advantage of Mao's " mistakes " to advance their own political goals, engaging in " criminal activity " for their own self-benefit.

According to Yahoo Korea, Lin was voted best actress with 17, 358 votes followed by Fan Bingbing, Li Kun Wang and Yao Chen.

According to the media, Lin appearing as a bridesmaid at her good friend, Annie Wu ’ s wedding in Okinawa, Japan June 9..

According to Ruby Lin, " We didn't have a significant quarrel or dispute, therefore after the breakup we can still be friends "

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According to Lin, " Friends play a very important role in my life.

According to Lin Chen-kuo, Hakamaya's view is that " Critical Buddhism sees methodical, rational critique as belonging to the very foundations of Buddhism itself, while ' Topical Buddhism ' emphasizes the priority of rhetoric over logical thinking, of ontology over epistemology.

According to legend, the king of Ba, Lin Jun, transformed into a white tiger upon his death.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to Friedman, " these two rejections were devastating to the man who had made a career of demonstrating American ideals in film ", along with his directing award-winning documentary films for the Army.

According to some sources, the experience crushed him emotionally and ended his career as an artist.

According to her bio in Playbill ( 1942 ), Paxinou was disowned by her family after she decided to seek a permanent stage career.

According to Paul Kelly, " It was perhaps the most stupid remark of his career and it nearly cost him the prime ministership.

According to Edmund Gosse, his father's career was destroyed by his " strange act of wilfulness " in publishing Omphalos ; Edmund claimed his father had " closed the doors upon himself forever.

According to German historian Gunther Wolf, the high point of Boniface's career was the Concilium Germanicum, organized by Carloman in an unknown location in April 743.

According to his friend, the theologian Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, More once seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career to become a monk.

According to Varney, he was cursed with vampirism after he had betrayed a royalist to Oliver Cromwell and accidentally killed his own son afterwards in a fit of anger, although he " dies " and is revived several times in the course of his career.

According to the statistical record used by CricketArchive, Grace's final first-class appearance in 1908 was his 870th and concluded a first-class career that had lasted 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908, equalling the record for the longest career span held by John Sherman, who played from 1809 to 1852.

According to this view, individuals could use social capital to further their own career prospects, rather than for the good of organisations.

According to Hayworth's biographers this erotic dance routine was " the most demanding of her entire career ", necessitating " endless takes and retakes ".

According to his autobiography, That's a Winner, Buck's children helped his career in the 1970s.

According to some older sources he initially wanted to have a career in the Church ( it is probable that he held the post of Oblate ) and even asked for a dispensation to became a monk.

According to Lewis, " he euphoric paintings of this time, which show the young couple floating balloon-like over Vitebsk — its wooden buildings faceted in the Delaunay manner — are the most lighthearted of his career ".

According to Cogniat, there are certain elements in his art that have remained permanent and seen throughout his career.

According to Golf Digest, Palmer made $ 1, 861, 857 in 734 PGA Tour career starts over 53 years ; he earned an estimated $ 30 million off the course in 2008.

" According to the stories which Borrow picked up around Tregaron, Twm's career was more straightforward.

According to several music critics and historians, Marvin Gaye's career " spanned the entire history of rhythm and blues from fifties doo-wop to eighties contemporary soul.

According to this book, Martin received help with his singing career from members of the Chicago Outfit, who owned saloons in the city, and later performed in shows hosted by these bosses when he was a star.

According to Cody's account in Buffalo Bill's Own Story, the Utah War was where he first began his career as an " Indian fighter ".

" According to Donald D. Horward, " Masséna's military career was equaled by few commanders in European history.

According to Harper's New Monthly Magazine, towards the end of his career, he was present when an itinerant missionary was exhorting an open-air congregation in Mansfield, Ohio.

According to Dr Charles Barber, biographer, friend, and pen-pal of Kleiber, another factor contributed to his legendary and unusual career.