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Theres also this alleged mao quote
He buried 460 scholars alive; we have buried forty-six thousand scholars alive... You [intellectuals] revile us for being Qin Shi Huangs. You are wrong. We have surpassed Qin Shi Huang a hundredfold. When you berate us for imitating his despotism, we are happy to agree! Your mistake was that you did not say so enough.
But it sounds fake as fuck
But, I suppose some in the CPC view him as a historically "progressive" figure who overthrew a decentralized feudal society and instituted a authoritarian bureaucratic state, or it might simply but a nationalist thing since he is the first emperor of a unified China
（大笑）
(Laughter)
Tongue-in-cheek?
If Mao is ok making this joke I'm ok making unlimited genocide on the first world jokes.
lmaoGod I love mao so much 
every "questionable" thing he's ever quoted on i'm just like 
They liked him because he hated Confucians and brought China out of the Warring States period, which Chinese people see as a parallel to the Warlord era that the CPC brought China out of.
In the modern day replace scholars with US Journalists and burying them alive starts to sound like a really great idea.
He buried 460 scholars alive; we have buried forty-six thousand scholars alive... You [intellectuals] revile us for being Qin Shi Huangs. You are wrong. We have surpassed Qin Shi Huang a hundredfold. When you berate us for imitating his despotism, we are happy to agree! Your mistake was that you did not say so enough.
I'll allow it if the "scholars" are business/econ majors in the West or 
Edit: Read the replies below and happy to know that this is the case — the quote is so much more based with context
i dont know the answer to this but one thing i can say for certain is in my expert opinion as an enjoyer of historical cdramas life sucked for most people back in the old days.
If it's particularly for the purpose of killing Confucianism, I think that's a good thing.
He has a cool name
To be fair, he literally invented the Chinese word for "emperor" just so he could rename himself to "First Emperor"