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The everlasting empire [[electronic resource] ] : the political culture of ancient China and its imperial legacy / / Yuri Pines



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Autore: Pines Yuri Visualizza persona
Titolo: The everlasting empire [[electronic resource] ] : the political culture of ancient China and its imperial legacy / / Yuri Pines Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2012
Edizione: Core Textbook
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 306.20951
Soggetto topico: Political culture - China - History
Political science - China - Philosophy - History
Imperialism - China - History
Ideology - China - History
Soggetto geografico: China Politics and government
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: All-under-Heaven
Chinese emperor
Chinese emperorship
Chinese empire
Chinese history
Chinese imperial experience
Chinese intellectuals
Chinese political culture
Chinese political system
Republic of China
administrative power
balances
bureaucracy
checks
commoners
contemporary China
cultural foundations
depersonalization
educated elite
flawed morality
fragmentation
government apparatus
historical changes
imperial history
imperial ideology
imperial political culture
imperial political structure
imperial unification
institution
intellectual elitism
large-scale uprisings
local elites
modern China
modernity
monarch
monarchism
monarchy
omnipotent
political actors
political durability
political dynamics
political unity
popular uprisings
power
prosperity
rebellion
scholar-officials
shi
social power
stateХlite interactions
tianxia
unified empire
unity
voluntary attachment
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Ideal of "Great Unity" -- Chapter 2. The Monarch -- Chapter 3. The Literati -- Chapter 4. Local Elite -- Chapter 5. The People -- Chapter 6. Imperial Political Culture in the Modern Age -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet fundamental institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural features of the empire remained intact. The Everlasting Empire traces the roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and unparalleled political durability, and shows how lessons from the imperial past are relevant for China today. Yuri Pines demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid ideological premises and their flexible implementation. The empire's major political actors and neighbors shared its fundamental ideological principles, such as unity under a single monarch--hence, even the empire's strongest domestic and foreign foes adopted the system of imperial rule. Yet details of this rule were constantly negotiated and adjusted. Pines shows how deep tensions between political actors including the emperor, the literati, local elites, and rebellious commoners actually enabled the empire's basic institutional framework to remain critically vital and adaptable to ever-changing sociopolitical circumstances. As contemporary China moves toward a new period of prosperity and power in the twenty-first century, Pines argues that the legacy of the empire may become an increasingly important force in shaping the nation's future trajectory.
Titolo autorizzato: The everlasting empire  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49410-7
9786613589330
1-4008-4227-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462138803321
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