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The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy
Yuri Pines
The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy
Yuri Pines
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. This book demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid ideological premises.
256 pages, 1 map.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 27, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780691134956 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 164 × 240 × 24 mm · 542 g |
Language | English |