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Forming the Early Chinese Court: Rituals, Spaces, Roles

Forming the Early Chinese Court: Rituals, Spaces, Roles

Habberstad, Luke

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Literary CriticismChinese History

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ISBN10: 0295742399
ISBN13: 9780295742397
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: Jan 1 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides between literary, political, and administrative texts, Luke Habberstad examines sources from the Qin, Western Han, and Xin periods (221 BCE-23 CE) for insights into court society and ritual, rank, the development of the bureaucracy, and the role of the emperor. These diverse sources show that a large, but not necessarily cohesive, body of courtiers drove the consolidation, distribution, and representation of power in court institutions. Forming the Early Chinese Court encourages us to see China's imperial unification as a surprisingly idiosyncratic process that allowed different actors to stake claims in a world of increasing population, wealth, and power.

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