Everlasting Empire (eBook)

The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy

Yuri Pines (Autor)

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2012
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4227-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Yuri Pines holds the Michael W. Lipson Chair in Chinese Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a visiting professor at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. He is the author of Foundations of Confucian Thought and Envisioning Eternal Empire.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 1 map.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • administrative power • All-under-heaven • An Lushan • aristocracy • authoritarianism • autocracy • balances • Buddhism • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • Cambridge University Press • Career • central government • Checks • Chiang Kai-shek • China • China proper • Chinese Culture • Chinese emperor • Chinese emperorship • Chinese empire • Chinese history • Chinese imperial experience • chinese intellectuals • Chinese political culture • Chinese political system • Commoner • commoners • communism • Confucianism • Confucius • contemporary China • Cultural Foundations • Cultural revolution • decentralization • de facto • depersonalization • dynastic cycle • Dynasty • edict • Educated Elite • elitism • Emperor of China • Eunuch • Failed State • flawed morality • Fragmentation • Government • government apparatus • Great Unity • Hai Rui • Han dynasty • Han Feizi • hegemony • historical changes • Historiography • Huang Zongxi • Ideology • Imperial examination • imperial government • imperial history • Imperial ideology • imperialism • imperial political culture • imperial political structure • imperial state • imperial unification • Institution • Intellectual • intellectual elitism • large-scale uprisings • Legitimacy (political) • Leninism • Li Si • local elites • Longevity • Mao Zedong • martyr • Meritocracy • Ming Dynasty • Modern China • Modernity • Monarch • monarchism • Monarchy • mozi • Multitude • narrative • nation state • Neo-Confucianism • omnipotent • Orthodoxy • Patronage • peasant • Persecution • political actors • Political culture • political durability • political dynamics • Political Philosophy • political structure • Political System • political unity • Politics • popular uprisings • Potentate • Power • Princeton University Press • Prosperity • Public sphere • Qin dynasty • Qing Dynasty • Qin Shi Huang • Rebellion • Regime • Regional state • Religion • Republic of China • Ruler • scholar-officials • Self-Image • Shang Yang • Shi • Sima Guang • Social power • Song dynasty • Son of Heaven • Sovereignty • State Formation • State (polity) • stateХlite interactions • Sun Yat-sen • Superiority (short story) • Taoism • Tianxia • unified empire • UNITY • voluntary attachment • Wang Anshi • Wang Gungwu • Wang Mang • war • warfare • Warring States Period • Wealth • Writing • xiongnu • Xunzi (book) • Yongzheng Emperor • Zhu Xi
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4227-1 / 1400842271
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4227-8 / 9781400842278