Chinese dynasty (221-206 BC) that unified the Warring States, which Liu Zhongjing marks as the end of Chinese cultural history and beginning of 'fellaheen' status.
"Just like Qin unifying China, we've got this weirdly unified culture/identity/whatever you wanna call it. If we ever split in the future, it'll probably be this same thing that sparks a war to 'reunite' everyone"
"Liu marks the end of that history around the Qin Dynasty (221 BC–206 BC). Whether his reading of it is correct or not, he sees it as proof that the Qin wars of conquest that unified the Warring States resulted in the extinction of "cultural nations" (wénhuà mínzú 文化民族, or Kulturnation, as Spengler c"