Description: Confucian-legalist State : A New Theory of Chinese History, Paperback by Zhao, Dingxin, ISBN 0190886951, ISBN-13 9780190886950, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic empire under the Qin
dynasty in 221 BCE. It then examines the political system that crystallized during the Western Han dynasty, a system that drew on Chinas philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Legalism. Despite great changes in Chinas demography, religion, technology, and socioeconomic structures, this
Confucian-Legalist political system survived for over two millennia. Yet, it was precisely because of the systems resilience that China, for better or worse, did not develop industrial capitalism as Western Europe did, notwithstanding Chinas economic prosperity and technological sophistication
beginning with the Northern Song dynasty.
In examining the nature of this political system, Zhao offers a new way of viewing Chinese history, one that emphasizes the importance of structural forces and social mechanisms in shaping historical dynamics. As a work of historical sociology, The Confucian-Legalist State aims to show how the
patterns of Chinese history were not shaped by any single force, but instead by meaningful activities of social actors which were greatly constrained by, and at the same time reproduced and modified, the constellations of political, economic, military, and ideological forces. This book thus offers a
startling new understanding of long-term patterns of Chinese history, one that should trigger debates for years to come among historians, political scientists, and sociologists.
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Book Title: Confucian-legalist State : A New Theory of Chinese History
Number of Pages: 472 Pages
Publication Name: Confucian-Legalist State: a New Theory of Chinese History
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Asia / General, Europe / Renaissance, Confucianism, Asia / China, Europe / Medieval
Item Weight: 23.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 6.1 in
Subject Area: Religion, History
Author: Dingxin Zhao
Item Width: 9.1 in
Series: Oxford Studies in Early Empires Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
