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Cover 1 State Power in Ancient China and Rome 4 Copyright 5 Acknowledgments 6 Contents 8 Contributors 10 Chronology 14 China 14 Rome 15 STATE POWER IN ANCIENT CHINA AND ROME 20 Introduction 22 1: Kingship and Elite Formation 30 1. Patrimonial Politics of Complex Agrarian Empires 33 2. Imperial Elite Formation and the Domestication of Aristocracy 36 3. Dialogue and Negotiation: The Ecumenic Discourse on Kingship 45 4. Final Reflections 56 2: Toward a Comparative Understanding of the Executive Decision-Making Process in China and Rome 58 3: The Han Bureaucracy: Its Origin, Nature, and Development 75 1. The Origin of Bureaucracy in China 75 2. The Structure of the Western Han Bureaucracy 82 3. Ranking, Recruitment, Promotion, and Performance Checking 86 3.1. Ranking 87 3.2. Recruitment and Promotion 87 3.3 Performance Checking 90 4. The Making of a Prevailing Ideology 94 5. Problems of the Western Han Bureaucracy 98 5.1. The Emperor and the Bureaucracy 98 5.2. The Recommendation System 101 5.3. The Censorial System and Flexibility of the Chinese Bureaucracy 103 5.4. The “Problems” of the Clerks 104 6. Bureaucracy and Modernity 106 4: The Common Denominator: Late Roman Imperial Bureauc

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Author

Walter Scheidel

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction