Governing China

• Utgivningsdatum: 2010-09-15
• Mått: 147 x 226 x 13 mm
• Vikt: 284 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 143
• Förlag: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
• ISBN: 9781603843126

• Asiens historia
• Allmän historia och världshistoria

John W. Dardess is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Kansas.

This compact narrative history of government institutions and their dialectical relation to society makes a perfect introduction to traditional China for political science, modern history, and comparative politics classes. The thesis, upheld by both specifics in lively prose and thought-provoking cross-period comparisons, is that unity, however valorized, always required hard work: military, political, and cultural creativity amidst ever-changing ethnic, class, and religious formations. Dardess also washes out old libels on non-Han, female, and eunuch power holders simply by recounting the facts. --S. Schneewind, University of California, San Diego

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