Editing Li Si (section)

== Legacy ==
Believing in a highly bureaucratic system, Li Si was central to the efficiency of Qin and the success of its military conquest. He was also instrumental in systematizing standard measures and currency in post-unified China. He further helped systematize the written [[Chinese language]] by promulgating as the imperial standard the [[small seal script]] which had already been in use in Qin. In this process, variant glyphs within the Qin script were proscribed, as were variant scripts from the different regions which had been conquered. This had a unifying effect on the [[Chinese culture]] for thousands of years.{{efn|name=seal script}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Chen (陳)|first=Zhaorong (昭容)|title=Research on the Qín (Ch'in) Lineage of Writing: An Examination from the Perspective of the History of Chinese Writing (中央研究院歷史語言研究所專刊)|year=2003|language=Chinese|publisher=Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology Monograph | isbn = 978-957-671-995-0 }} pp. 10, 12.</ref> Li Si was also the author of the ''[[Cangjiepian]]'', the first Chinese language primer of which fragments still exist.<ref>''Outstretched Leaves on his Bamboo Staff: Essays in Honour of [[Göran Malmqvist]] on his 70th Birthday'', Joakim Enwall, ed., Stockholm: Association of Oriental Studies, 1994, pp. 97–113.</ref>