In 2002, in the town of Liye, located in the northwestern part of Hunan Province, near the Wuling Mountain Range, archeologists discovered the remnants of an ancient town of the Qin Dynasty. They found in a disused well over 30,000 bamboo slips and wooden tablets, more than 17,000 of which were inscribed. Most of these slips and tablets contained administrative and legal documents. The significance of Liye documents for understanding the functioning mode of China’s first imperial dynasty, the Qin, is second only to the famous Terracotta Warriors and Horses discovered in 1974. Most notably, these documents provide us with a rare glimpse of the grassroots administration during the Qin Dynasty.