Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest - Couverture rigide

Loewe, Michael

 
9789004314887: Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004314881 ISBN 13 : 9789004314887
Editeur : Brill, 2016

Synopsis

Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China's early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor's predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the throne. In practical terms, tax collectors, merchants, farmers and townsmen required the establishment of a standard set of weights and measures that was universally operative and which they could trust. Those who saw reason to criticise the decisions taken by the emperor and his immediate advisors, whether on grounds of moral principles or political expediency, needed opportunities and the means of expressing their views, whether as remonstrants to the throne, by withdrawal from public life or as authors of private writings.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Loewe, PhD, served as University Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Cambridge from 1963 to 1990. His publications range from Records of Han Administration (1967) to Dong Zhongshu, a 'Confucian' Heritage and the Chunqiu fanlu (2011).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004314881
ISBN 13 
9789004314887
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
340
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