Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132
years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912.
During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign
incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet
fundamental institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural features of
the empire remained intact. "The Everlasting Empire" traces the
roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and
unparalleled political durability, and shows how lessons from the
imperial past are relevant for China today.
Yuri Pines demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted
to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar
combination of rigid ideological premises and their flexible
implementation. The empire's major political actors and neighbors
shared its fundamental ideological principles, such as unity under
a single monarch--hence, even the empire's strongest domestic and
foreign foes adopted the system of imperial rule. Yet details of
this rule were constantly negotiated and adjusted. Pines shows how
deep tensions between political actors including the emperor, the
literati, local elites, and rebellious commoners actually enabled
the empire's basic institutional framework to remain critically
vital and adaptable to ever-changing sociopolitical circumstances.
As contemporary China moves toward a new period of prosperity and
power in the twenty-first century, Pines argues that the legacy of
the empire may become an increasingly important force in shaping
the nation's future trajectory.
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