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The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China)



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.





As the first volume in the History of Imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires sets an authoritative, reliable tone
that bodes well for this important new series. The book meets a high standard of historical accuracy and covers an
impressively broad range of topics. Accessible to a wide audience, it will appeal to anyone interested in the
foundations of the Chinese imperial tradition.

--Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania (20080314)



Inaugurating a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, this volume holds that characteristics of the first
Chinese empire broadly endured for the succeeding 2,000 years...[Those] planning to acquire the entire series mustn't
omit Lewis' solid foundation.

--Gilbert Taylor (Booklist )



The standard multivolume history of China has long been the magisterial, exhaustive Cambridge History of China. Now
Harvard University Press has announced a six-volume series that will cover the rise, development, and decline of
dynastic China from the second century B.C.E. through the early 20th century in an up-to-date, compact, and approachable
way. This opening volume by Lewis foretells that the series will become the new gold standard, as the author explains in
clear and telling detail how the Qin dynasty ruthlessly defeated a succession of rivals to unify briefly what we now
call China in 221 B.C.E. We then see how the succeeding Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) combined social engineering
and political savvy to institutionalize control and form a 'classical' era parallel to the Greeks and Romans in the
West. Han imperial structures, including religion, literature, and law, were quite different from what evolved out of
them, but Lewis convincingly argues that later societies cannot be understood without understanding this classical
foundation.

--Charles W. Hayford (Library Journal (starred review) )



Mark Lewis's mind-opening and readable book reminds us of the enduring but changing realities of China.

--Jonathan Mirsky (Times Literary Supplement )



Hardcover: 336 pages

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; annotated edition edition (April 20, 2007)

Language: English 

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