He died in 1996. For some younger people that may seem like a long time ago but In 1996 I was watching toy story, playing gameboy. My mom just got a flip phone cell phone from Verizon. pokemon red came out. People who are not even fifty yet were going to teach english near him after college.

Can you imagine there were still living folks who had their balls cut off to serve a emperor? And by his own father. Absolutely barbaric.

The wiki article is surprisingly bare. If you search his chinese name you find mountains of information about him in Chinese but almost nothing on the English internet.