The Qin Empire (TV series)

The Qin Empire 1st season

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Genre Historical drama
Written by Sun Haohui
Directed by Huang Jianzhong
Yan Yi
Presented by Liu Bin
Li Ruigang
Shu Zhan
Qu Xiangjun
Jiao Yang
Wang Yaxing
Starring Hou Yong
Wang Zhifei
Qi Fang
Du Yulu
Sun Feihu
Ending theme Fenghua Juedai (风华绝代) performed by Liao Changyong and Tan Jing
Composer(s) Zhao Jiping
Country of origin China
Original language(s) Mandarin
No. of episodes 51 (original version)
48 (China version)
Production
Executive producer(s) Lin Feng
Lu Shuchao
Chen Ruofan
Jiang Anmin
Producer(s) Jiao Yang
Chen Wenguang
Chen Liang
Location(s) China
Running time 45 minutes per episode
Production company(s) 陕西省广电局
陕西电视台
上海文广新闻传媒集团
福建广播影视集团
北京军区政治部战友电视艺术中心
陕西国风影业投资有限公司
北京长河绿洲文化发展有限公司
Distributor 广东梦通文化发展有限公司
Release
First shown in December 2009
The Qin Empire
Traditional Chinese 大秦帝國
Simplified Chinese 大秦帝国

The Qin Empire is a 2009 Chinese television series based on Sun Haohui's novel of the same Chinese title. The series chronicles the rise of the Qin state in the Warring States period during the reign of Duke Xiao of Qin. It was produced in 2006 and first aired on television channels in China in December 2009. It will air with an English dub some time in 2016.

Plot

In the mid-fourth century BC during the Warring States period, groundbreaking political changes occur in the Qin state in western China. Qin, weakened by poverty and internal conflict, is in peril of being annexed by the six other states in the east. Duke Xiao, the young new ruler of Qin, seeks to restore his state to its former glory and retake the territories lost by Qin in its earlier humiliating defeats by rival states. Duke Xiao recruits several talents to help him in his ambitious plans. The most outstanding one, a statesman called Shang Yang, cooperates closely with Duke Xiao on massive political and economic reforms in Qin that lasted two decades. The changes transform Qin into a powerful state, with legal and military systems that helped to lay the foundation for Qin's eventual unification of China under the Qin dynasty nearly 200 years later in 221 BC.

The series won the Flying Goddess Award and the Golden Eagle Prize for the Best TV Drama.

Cast

Qin state

Wei state

Mohists

Others

List of featured songs

External links

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