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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 320.93109014 EAN: 9780872208186 ISBN: 0872208184 Label: Hackett Publishing Company Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: September 30, 2006 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Studio: Hackett Publishing Company Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In this concise volume, Michael Loewe provides an engaging overview of the government of the early empires of China. Topics discussed are: the seat of supreme authority; the structure of central government; provincial and local government; the armed forces; officials; government communications; laws of the empire; control of the people and the land; controversies; and problems and weaknesses of the imperial system. Enhanced by details from recently discovered manuscripts, relevant citations from official documents, maps, a chronology of relevant events, and suggestions for further reading keyed to each topic, this work is an ideal introduction to the ways in which Chinas first emperors governed. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Scholarly And DryMichael Loewe writes in his introduction that this work is "addressed to non-specialist readers." Unfortunately, this book does not meet his stated goal. Only a very few select readers, whether professional or amateur, will be able to read this dull volume through from cover to cover. That said, let's try to understand this work of ultra-respectable scholarship on its own terms: every sentence in Loewe's book is directly supported by quoted textual evidence. The result is a book that ... Read More Rating:  - Much Ado About Something EffeteI have to convey to readers my surprise with the conclusions of author Michael Loewe [his book is quite useful as the source of specific information on the deliberations and characters of Chinese History of Government - with anecdotes from recently translated and re-examined uncovered writings]. The failing of this book is that it is very narrow-minded when it comes to interpreting the presented information in any broader historical sense. Here is where the Western political science indoctrination ... Read More 
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