The Early Chinese EmpiresHarvard University Press, 2009 M06 30 - 333 pages In 221 B.C. the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In the first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, Lewis highlights the key challenges facing the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity. |
Contents
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2 A State Organized for War | 30 |
3 The Paradoxes of Empire | 51 |
4 Imperial Cities | 75 |
5 Rural Society | 102 |
6 The Outer World | 128 |
7 Kinship | 155 |
9 Literature | 206 |
10 Law | 227 |
Conclusion | 253 |
Dates and Usage | 267 |
Acknowledgments | 270 |
Notes | 271 |
Bibliography | 292 |
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Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires Walter Scheidel Limited preview - 2009 |