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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

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

Author

Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook

Publisher

Belknap Press; Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674024779

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Fiction, History

Rating

3.69 / 5 (162 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14