Forming the Early Chinese Court: Rituals, Spaces, Roles
Luke Habberstad
Forming the Early Chinese Courtbuilds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides between literary, political, and administrative texts, Luke Habberstad examines sources from the Qin, Western Han, and Xin periods (221 BCE-23 CE) for insights into court society and ritual, rank, the development of the bureaucracy, and the role of the emperor. These diverse sources show that a large, but not necessarily cohesive, body of courtiers drove the consolidation, distribution, and representation of power in court institutions.Forming the Early Chinese Courtencourages us to see China's imperial unification as a surprisingly idiosyncratic process that allowed different actors to stake claims in a world of increasing population, wealth, and power.
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Год:
2017
Издательство:
University of Washington Press
Язык:
english
Страницы:
256
ISBN 10:
0295742399
ISBN 13:
9780295742397
Файл:
PDF, 1.91 MB
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english, 2017