LEADER 04219nam 22005295 450 001 9911011292003321 005 20241216120811.0 010 $a3-11-079185-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110791853 035 $a(CKB)36952441600041 035 $a(DE-B1597)624351 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110791853 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31893456 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31893456 035 $a(OCoLC)1479750966 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936952441600041 100 $a20241216h20242025 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Imperial Qín Dynasty $eElements of Governance as Reflected in the L?y? ?? Manuscripts /$fMarcel Schneider 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $cDe Gruyter, $d[2024] 210 4$d2025 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 260 p.) 225 0 $aWelten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l?Extrême Orient : Im Auftrag der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft - On behalf of the Swiss Asia Society - Au nom de la Société Suisse-Asie ,$x1660-9131 ;$v37 311 08$a3-11-079183-8 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tPeriodization -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1 Introduction -- $t2 The Manuscripts -- $t3 Calendar and Timekeeping Systems -- $t4 Administrative Geography -- $t5 Corvée Labor -- $t6 Resource Management -- $t7 Conclusion -- $tAppendix -- $tList of Figures -- $tList of Tables -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe L?y? ?? text corpus, which is named after an ancient township in present-day Lóngsh?n ??, Húnán province, grants unique opportunities to reshape the image and redefine our knowledge about social, legal, political, administrative and ritual responsibilities of the first Chinese empire. The impressive collection of over 37,000 documents span a time period from 222 to 208 BC and grant a unique opportunity to reshape the image and redefine our knowledge about social, legal, political, logistical and ritual responsibilities of the first Chinese empire. This book is concerned with the overall governance at the southern fringes of the Qín dynasty as reflected in the excavated documents from L?y? well J1. It contributes to a revised understanding of the Qín dynasty by demonstrating that the degree of decentralization in the empire was high and to a large extent coordinated by relatively autonomously governed regions. It furthermore displays the Qín dynasty?s strong sense of historical continuity and a desire to strive towards unification by embracing the predominant standards of earlier rulers. After an introductory part on the L?y? material, this book analyzes Qín?s sophisticated methods of calendar and timekeeping. It then dwells into the territoriality of the young empire and focuses on unification attempts bound to transform the pre-imperial multistate order into a standardized system of governance and control. The last part deals with the organization of essential resources, including unprecedented tax calculations ?district? (xi?ng ?) level. Overall, this book offers a fascinating glimpse at the many microstructures and complexities in the peripheral area of a larger administration. The manuscripts available to us to this day and the ones that will be excavated from wells J2 and J3 in the future will undoubtedly continue to be a basic reference point when it comes to the research of pre-imperial and early imperial documents. 410 0$aWelten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême Orient Series 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies$2bisacsh 610 $aCalendar. 610 $adecentralization. 610 $ataxation. 610 $atimekeeping. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies. 676 $a931.04 700 $aSchneider$b Marcel$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0388760 712 02$aSchweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911011292003321 996 $aThe Imperial Qín Dynasty$94309602 997 $aUNINA