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 people/5(76). · 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 . · The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han Volume 1 of History of Imperial China: Author: Mark Edward Lewis: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: Harvard University Press, ISBN: , /5(7).
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han [Mark Edward Lewis]. In 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 fun. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China) by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, , X. The first chapter examines the geography of the early empires, which, Lewis argues, is a tale of distinct regions in Qin and Han. Compared with the Warring States period when many competing states highlighted their regional particulari ties, Qin and Han, as the first two unified empires in Chinese history, criticized.
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. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han Volume 1 of History of Imperial China: Author: Mark Edward Lewis: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: Harvard University Press, ISBN: Mark Edward Lewis's "The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han" is the first book of a six -volume series on the history of imperial China, covering the more than two thousand years from the establishment of the first imperial dynasty in BCE, when the Qin state conquered the other Warring States of what is today the eastern part of China and unified the country, to the deposition of the last Qing emperor at the beginning of the 20th century and the formation of the Republic of China.
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