Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and History at Stanford University. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of fourteen books, including Rome and China and The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean.

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• ContributorsChronologyMaps IntroductionWalter Scheidel 1 Kingship and elite formationPeter Fibiger Bang and Karen Turner 2 Toward a comparative understanding of the executive decision-making process in China and RomeCorey Brennan 3 The Han bureaucracy: its origin, structure and developmentDingxin Zhao 4 The common denominator: late Roman imperial bureaucracy from a comparative perspectivePeter Eich 5 State revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empiresWalter Scheidel 6 Urban systems in the Han and Roman empires: state power and social controlCarlos Noreña 7 Public spaces in cities in the Roman and Han empiresMark Lewis 8 Ghosts, gods, and the coming apocalypse: empire and religion in early China and ancient RomeMichael Puett BibliographyIndex

Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and History at Stanford University. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of fourteen books, including Rome and China and The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean.

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• ContributorsChronologyMaps IntroductionWalter Scheidel 1 Kingship and elite formationPeter Fibiger Bang and Karen Turner 2 Toward a comparative understanding of the executive decision-making process in China and RomeCorey Brennan 3 The Han bureaucracy: its origin, structure and developmentDingxin Zhao 4 The common denominator: late Roman imperial bureaucracy from a comparative perspectivePeter Eich 5 State revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empiresWalter Scheidel 6 Urban systems in the Han and Roman empires: state power and social controlCarlos Noreña 7 Public spaces in cities in the Roman and Han empiresMark Lewis 8 Ghosts, gods, and the coming apocalypse: empire and religion in early China and ancient RomeMichael Puett BibliographyIndex

Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics and History at Stanford University. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of fourteen books, including Rome and China and The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean.

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• ContributorsChronologyMaps IntroductionWalter Scheidel 1 Kingship and elite formationPeter Fibiger Bang and Karen Turner 2 Toward a comparative understanding of the executive decision-making process in China and RomeCorey Brennan 3 The Han bureaucracy: its origin, structure and developmentDingxin Zhao 4 The common denominator: late Roman imperial bureaucracy from a comparative perspectivePeter Eich 5 State revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empiresWalter Scheidel 6 Urban systems in the Han and Roman empires: state power and social controlCarlos Noreña 7 Public spaces in cities in the Roman and Han empiresMark Lewis 8 Ghosts, gods, and the coming apocalypse: empire and religion in early China and ancient RomeMichael Puett BibliographyIndex