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The Early Chinese Empires - Qin and Han (Paperback)
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The Early Chinese Empires - Qin and Han (Paperback)
Series: History of Imperial China
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Loot Price R581
Discovery Miles 5 810
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In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would
become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest,
this vast domain depended for its political survival on a
fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative
book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order
whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and
Han constitute the "classical period" of Chinese history-a role
played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis
highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and
scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and
diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to
transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the
invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the
establishment of a common script for communication and a
state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the
flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local
society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship
structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of
non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging
Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history
of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many
formative events in China's long history of imperialism-events
whose residual influence can still be discerned today.
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