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Libri antichi e moderni

Li Feng

Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Governing the Western Zhou

Cambridge University Press 2013,

124,00 €

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Autore
Li Feng
Editori
Cambridge University Press 2013
Soggetto
CINA China Chine
Descrizione
S
Sovracoperta
No
Stato di conservazione
Come nuovo
Legatura
Brossura
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

8vo, br. ed. pp.400. Ancient Chinese society developed a sophisticated and complex bureaucracy which is still in operation today and which had its pristine form in the government of the Western Zhou from 1045 to 771 BC. Li Feng, one of the leading scholars of the period, explores and interprets the origins and operational characteristics of that bureaucracy on the basis of the contemporaneous inscriptions of royal edicts cast onto bronze vessels, many of which have been discovered quite recently in archaeological explorations. The inscriptions clarify the political and social construction of the Western Zhou and the ways in which it exercised its authority. The discussion is accompanied by illustrations of the bronze vessels and their inscriptions, together with full references to their discovery and current ownership. The book also discusses the theory of bureaucracy and criticizes the various models of early-archaic states on the basis of close reading of the inscriptions.