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Could someone please check up on this article?

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The fact that he killed over one million soldiers seems absolutely unbelievable. I'm not quite sure this article is at all true, but I could be completely wrong. CaydenSelwyn 04:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Count the numbers in Shiji.Rczgpvh (talk) 17:18, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IN Shiji,the sum of the numbers is 0.89 million. But there should be a lot more, because many battles(61+) recorded come without number of soldiers killed. In China, it is usually believed that much more than a million were killed. However, I don't know where is "1,650,000" from, this number should be a imagine.取名真烦 (talk) 16:11, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bai Qi truly regreted to cheat and kill the Zhao soldiers before he suicided.

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This is recorded in Shiji, which is the most reliable reference. Before the suicide, he asked to him self that "我何罪於天而至此哉?”(What have I done wrong to suffer this?)After a while, he answered himself “我固當死。長平之戰,趙卒降者數十萬人,我詐而盡阬之,是足以死。"(I truly should die. In the Battle of Changping, I cheated and killed hundreds of thousands of surrenderd solders,that is the reason to die.)And then he commited suicide by cutting his own throat.取名真烦 (talk) 18:27, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bo Qi

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The Cambridge History of Ancient China spells his name Bo Qi. Can someone explain why? Benjamin Trovato (talk) 02:01, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

...er, because their Chinese isn't very good? Bo is an alternative pronounciation of 白 (but I have never heard it used) - see Bai Philg88 (talk) 06:40, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]