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Forming the early Chinese court : rituals, spaces, roles / Luke Habberstad.
Van Pelt Library DS747.42 .H34 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Habberstad, Luke, author.
- Series:
- Modern language initiative.
- The modern language initiative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Courts and courtiers--History--To 1500.
- Courts and courtiers.
- History.
- China--Social life and customs--221 B.C.-960 A.D.
- China.
- Manners and customs.
- China--History--Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C.
- China--History--Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
- Han Dynasty (China).
- Qin Dynasty (China).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides between literary, political, and administrative texts, Luke Habberstad examines sources from the Qin, Western Han, and Xin periods (221 BCE-23 CE) for insights into court society and ritual, rank, the development of the bureaucracy, and the role of the emperor. These diverse sources show that a large, but not necessarily cohesive, body of courtiers drove the consolidation, distribution, and representation of power in court institutions. Forming the Early Chinese Court encourages us to see China's imperial unification as a surprisingly idiosyncratic process that allowed different actors to stake claims in a world of increasing population, wealth, and power. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Rituals
- 1 Sumptuary Regulations and the Rhetoric of Equivalency 33
- 2 Who Gets to Praise the Emperor? 61
- Part 2 Spaces
- 3 Parks, Palaces, and Prestige 87
- Part 3 Roles
- 4 Politics, Rank, and Duty in Institutional Change 119
- 5 The Literary Invention of Bureaucracy 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Habberstad, Luke, author. Forming the early Chinese court
- ISBN:
- 9780295742397
- 0295742399
- 9780295742601
- 0295742607
- OCLC:
- 984683681
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