The early Chinese empires : Qin and Han
This first book in a six-volume series begins at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. It illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism, events whose residual influence can still be discerned today
Print Book, English, 2010
First Harvard University Press paperback edition View all formats and editions
Belknap, Cambridge, Mass., 2010
History
321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780674057340, 0674057341
963785934
The geography of empire
A state organized for war
The paradoxes of empire
Imperial cities
Rural society
The outer world
Kinship
Religion
Literature
Law