Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest (= China Studies, Vol. 33).

Loewe, Michael.

ISBN 10: 9004314881 / ISBN 13: 9789004314887

Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2016

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XI/326 pp., very good and clean, text in English, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 620 original hardcover (no dust jacket),

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest (= China Studies, Vol. 33).
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004314881
• ISBN 13: 9789004314887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 620 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Asian Studies

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Synopsis

Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China’s early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor’s predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the throne. In practical terms, tax collectors, merchants, farmers and townsmen required the establishment of a standard set of weights and measures that was universally operative and which they could trust. Those who saw reason to criticise the decisions taken by the emperor and his immediate advisors, whether on grounds of moral principles or political expediency, needed opportunities and the means of expressing their views, whether as remonstrants to the throne, by withdrawal from public life or as authors of private writings.

About the Author

Michael Loewe, PhD, served as University Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Cambridge from 1963 to 1990. His publications range from Records of Han Administration (1967) to Dong Zhongshu, a ‘Confucian’ Heritage and the Chunqiu fanlu (2011).