The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han

334 Pages·2007·3.74 MB·english

by  Mark Edward Lewis

history of imperial china
TimothyBrook,GeneralEditor

T H E E A R LY
C H I N E S E
E M P I R E S
QIN AND HAN
Mark Edward Lewis
the belknap press of
harvard university press
Cambridge,Massachusetts
London,England
2007
Copyright©2007bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege
Allrightsreserved
PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica
Cataloging-in-PublicationDataavailablefromthe
LibraryofCongress
LibraryofCongresscatalogcardnumber:2006043039
ISBN-13:978-0-674-02477-9(alk.paper)
ISBN-10:0-674-02477-x(alk.paper)
contents
Introduction 1
1 TheGeographyofEmpire 5
2 AStateOrganizedforWar 30
3 TheParadoxesofEmpire 51
4 ImperialCities 75
5 RuralSociety 102
6 TheOuterWorld 128
7 Kinship 155
8 Religion 178
9 Literature 206
10 Law 227
Conclusion 253
DatesandUsage 267
Acknowledgments 270
Notes 271
Bibliography 292
Index 309

maps
1.RiverSystemsofEarlyImperialChina 6
2.WesternHanEmpire 8
3.SequenceoftheQinConquestoftheWarringStates 10
4.CanalsoftheQin-HanEmpires 36
5.QinRoadNetwork 56
6.QinFrontiersandQinShihuang’sImperialProgresses 58
7.Chang’an,CapitaloftheWesternHan 95
8. ImperialFuneraryMoundsoftheQinandWesternHan 96
9.Luoyang,CapitaloftheEasternHan 99
10.TheXiongnuEmpire 134
11.CentralAsiaintheWesternHan 140
12.China’sInternationalTradeintheFirstCenturiesa.d. 142
13.EasternHanCentralAsia 144
14.TheHanNortheast 152
15.PopulationDistributionofChinain2a.d. 255
16.PopulationDistributionofChinain147a.d. 256