Tun daga shekarar 1972, duk da haka, an ba da ra'ayi daban-daban game da Qin Shi Huang daidai da tunanin Maoist a duk kasar Sin. Tarihin rayuwar Hong Shidi Qin Shi Huang ya fara sake kimantawa. An buga aikin ne ta hanyar jaridar jihar a matsayin mashahurin mashahurin tarihi, kuma ya sayar da kwafi miliyan 1.85 a cikin shekaru biyu. A cikin sabon zamanin, an dauki Qin Shi Huang a matsayin mai mulki mai hangen nesa wanda ya lalata sojojin rarrabuwa kuma ya kafa hadadden farko, jihar da ke da iko a tarihin kasar Sin ta hanyar kin amincewa da abin da ya gabata. Ba a ambaci halaye na sirri, kamar neman rashin mutuwa, wanda aka jaddada a cikin tarihin gargajiya ba. Sabbin kimantawa da ke nuna amincewa, sun bayyana yadda a lokacinsa (wani zamani na siyasa da rikice-rikice), bai sami damar yin amfani da matsi ba tare da amfani da hanyoyin tashin hankali don murkushe masu juyin juya halin masana'antu, kamar su Buze da Zhao Zhao, kuma an san shi a matsayin babban shugaban cinikayya na farko ba.
ya kafa na farko da aka hade, centralized jihar a tarihin kasar Sin