The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220Denis Twitchett, Michael Loewe, John K. Fairbank Cambridge University Press, 1986 M12 26 - 1024 pages This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a centralized administration and imperial government. Leading historians from Asia, Europe, and America have contributed chapters that convey a realistic impression of significant political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social developments, and of the contacts that the Chinese made with other peoples at this time. As the book is intended for the general reader as well as the specialist, technical details are given in both Chinese terms and English equivalents. References lead to primary sources and their translations and to secondary writings in European languages as well as Chinese and Japanese. |
Contents
The state and empire of Chin | 1 |
The structure and practice of government | 7 |
The concept of sovereignty | 13 |
The state and empire of Chin | 20 |
ΙΟ | 31 |
Military growth 338250 B C | 38 |
Reasons for the triumph | 45 |
reforms achievements excesses 221 | 52 |
The judicial process | 531 |
Private law | 541 |
Rural society and the development of agricultural | 551 |
II | 593 |
by PATRICIA EBREY University of Illinois | 608 |
12 | 630 |
by MICHAEL LOEWE | 649 |
Mythology | 657 |
Intellectual currents during the empire | 72 |
The collapse of Chin 210206 B C | 81 |
ix | 88 |
The pattern of political history | 103 |
The founding of the dynasty 210195 B C | 110 |
The consolidation of the empire 195141 B C | 128 |
The full force of modernist policies 14187 B C | 152 |
The years of transition 8749 B C | 179 |
Reform and decline 49 B C A D | 198 |
3 | 217 |
Later | 223 |
The reigns of Mingti and Changti A D 5788 | 292 |
The reign of Shunti A D 126144 | 305 |
The reign of Huanti A D 146168 | 311 |
The fall of | 317 |
377 | 349 |
Han foreign relations | 432 |
The structure and practice of government | 463 |
Provincial and local government | 470 |
The armed forces | 479 |
The institutions of Later Han | 491 |
The local administration | 506 |
The army | 512 |
Conclusion | 519 |
The codes | 525 |
Mantic beliefs and practices | 673 |
The universe and its order | 683 |
Ethical principles and the organization of | 703 |
Immortality and services to the dead | 715 |
The concept of sovereignty | 726 |
Pan Piaos essay | 735 |
The role and functions of the emperor | 743 |
Idealistic and rationalist attitudes | 749 |
Confucian Legalist and Taoist thought in Later Han | 766 |
Later Han | 779 |
The breakdown of central authority | 795 |
The value of Later Han thought | 806 |
Popular Taoism at the end of the Han dynasty | 815 |
The philosophical revival of the third century | 826 |
Buddhist and Taoist gnosis | 838 |
Buddhism under the southern and northern dynasties | 846 |
Taoism under the southern and northern dynasties | 860 |
Buddhism and Taoism under the Sui dynasty | 868 |
Bibliography | 879 |
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960 | |
Common terms and phrases
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