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The Bureaucracy of Han Times
Author | : Hans Bielenstein |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521101123 |
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This is a comprehensive and fully documented study of Chinese bureaucracy during the Han period, when many of the basic lines of Chinese government practice were laid down. It is also more detailed and wider in scope than similar works on other periods of Chinese history. The book covers the time from 202 BC to AD 9 and from AD 25 to 189, analysing and describing the central and local administrations, the army, official salaries, civil service recruitment and power in government. Professor Bielenstein translates all Chinese official titles and includes alphabetical lists of these titles with their English and Chinese equivalents. Thus his book will serve both as a description for the names of offices at every level of government. The book will be of interest to all scholars of Chinese history, as well as to experts in other fields of institutional history, government and political science.
Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy
Author | : Etienne Balazs |
Publsiher | : New Haven : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : MINN:31951001734316R |
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Born in Hungary, trained in Chinese studies in Germany, Etienne Balazs was, until his sudden and premature death in 1963, a professor at the Sorbonne and an intellectual leader among European specialists on China. In this book, a selection of Dr. Balazs' essays are presented for the first time in English. Arthur F. Wright, professor of history at Yale, and John K. Fairbank, professor of history at Harvard, have written a joint Preface and Mr. Wright has written an Introduction. Scholars and interested laymen will find a rich feast here in essays ranging over two thousand years of China's social, economic, political, and intellectual history. A wealth of data supports the various theories Dr. Balazs develops, in a graceful translation by Hope N. Wright.
Bureaucracy and the State in Early China
Author | : Feng Li |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2008-12-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521884471 |
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This ook redefines the bureaucracy of Ancient Chinese society during the Western Zhou period. The analysis is based on inscriptions of royal edicts from the period carved into bronze vessels. The inscriptions clarify the political and social construction of the Western Zhou and the ways in which it exercised its authority.
Chinese Bureaucracy Government Administration
Author | : Tak-Wa Kwok |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105072205730 |
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Empresses and Consorts
Author | : Shou Chen,Songzhi Pei |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824819454 |
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Here rendered into English for the first time, these chapters provide important insights into the worlds of palace women and court politics, while revealing much about the lives of upper-class women in general at the close of the third century."--BOOK JACKET.
China s Examination Hell
Author | : Ichisada Miyazaki |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300026390 |
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Written by one of the foremost historians of Chinese institutions, this book focuses on China's civil service examination system in its final and most elaborate phase during the Ch'ing dynasty. All aspects of this labyrinthine system are explored: the types of questions, the style and form in which they were to be answered, the problem of cheating, and the psychological and financial burdens of the candidates, the rewards of the successful and the plight of those who failed. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including Chinese novels, short stories, and plays, this thought provoking and entertaining book brings to vivid life the testing structure that supplied China's government bureaucracy for almost fourteen hundred years. "Professor Miyazaki's informative work is concerned with a system. . . that was, in effect, . . . the basic institution of Chinese political life, the real pillar which supported the imperial monarchy, the effective vehicle for the aspirations and ambitions of the ruling class. Imperial China without the examination system for the past thousand years and more would have developed in an entirely different way and might not have endured as the continuing form of government over a huge empire."--Pacific Affairs "The most comprehensive narrative treatment in any language of [this] enduring achievement of Chinese civilization."--American Historical Review
What Is Taoism
Author | : Herrlee Glessner Creel |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1982-09-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780226120478 |
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What Is Taoism? traces, in nontechnical language, the history of the development of this often baffling doctrine. Creel shows that there has not been one "Taoism," but at least three, in some respects incompatible and often antagonistic. In eight closely related papers, Creel explicates the widely used concepts he originally introduced of "contemplative Taoism," "purposive Taoism," and "Hsien Taoism." He also discusses Shen Pu-hai, a political philosopher of the fourth century B.C.; the curious interplay between Confucianism, Taoism, and "Legalism" in the second century B.C.; and the role of the horse in Chinese history.
The History of Government from the Earliest Times Ancient monarchies and empires
Author | : Samuel Edward Finer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9780198206644 |
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No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer, one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century. Ranging over 5,000 years, from the Sumerian city state to the modern European nation state, five themes emerge: state-building, military formats, belief systems, social stratification, and timespan. The three volumes examine both representative and exceptional polities, and focus on political elites of different types. Ancient Monarchies and Empires opens with Finer's masterly Conceptual Prologue, setting out the entire scope and structure of The History . Books One and Two then consider early examples of the predominantly palace' type of polity, notably in respect of the Kingdoms of Egypt and the Empires of Assyria, Persia, Han China, and Rome; interspersed with consideration of the exceptional' Jewish Kingdoms and the Greek and Roman Republics.