La quema de libros y la sepultura de intelectuales (chino tradicional: 焚書坑儒, chino simplificado: 焚书坑儒, pinyin: Fénshū Kēngrú) es una frase que hace referencia a una política llevada a cabo durante la dinastía Qin de la antigua China, en el período que abarca desde 213 a.C al 206 a.C y a las consecuencias que de ella se derivaron. Durante este período, las Cien escuelas de pensamiento fueron perseguidas, mientras que el legismo sobrevivió. Un efecto secundario fue la marginación de la ideología de la escuela Mozi en favor de los pensamientos de Confucio.La principal fuente de información sobre estos sucesos es el documento Memorias históricas, de Sima Qian; sin embargo, pocos estudiosos creen que dicha fuente refleje lo que realmente ocurrió.

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The burning of books and burying of scholars (simplified Chinese: 焚书坑儒; traditional Chinese: 焚書坑儒; pinyin: fénshū kēngrú) refers to the supposed burning of texts in 213 BC and live burial of 460 Confucian scholars in 210 BC by the First Emperor of the Qin dynasty of ancient China. The event caused the loss of many philosophical treatises of the Hundred Schools of Thought. The official philosophy of government ("legalism") survived. Recent scholars doubt the details of the story in the Records of the Grand Historian—the main source —since the author, Sima Qian, wrote a century or so after the events and was an official of the Han dynasty, which succeeded the Qin dynasty, and could be expected to show it in an unfavourable light. While it is clear that the First Emperor gathered and destroyed many works which he regarded as subversive, two copies of each were to be preserved in imperial libraries, which were destroyed in the fighting following the fall of the dynasty. It is also now believed that many scholars were killed, but that they were not Confucians and were not "buried alive." In any case, the incidents and the phrase "burning of books and burying of scholars" became enduring legends in the Confucian legacy.

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