or Li Ssu
born 280 BC?, Chu state, central China
died 208 BC, Xianyang, Shaanxi province
Minister of the Qin dynasty in China who utilized the ideas of Hanfeizi to make the Qin the first centralized Chinese empire.
His ordering of the "Qin bibliocaust"
the burning of all books
earned him the opprobrium of future generations of Confucian scholars.