《永恆的帝國: 古代中國的政治文化及其遺產》
作者 Author:
Yuri Pines
出版社 Publisher:
Princeton Press
出版年 Publication Year:
2012
內容簡介 Abstract:
Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before
being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the
empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and
devastating rebellions--yet fundamental institutional, sociopolitical, and
cultural features of the empire remained intact. The Everlasting Empire
traces the roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and unparalleled
political durability, and shows how lessons from the imperial past are relevant
for China today.
Yuri Pines demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of
domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid
ideological premises and their flexible implementation. The empire's major
political actors and neighbors shared its fundamental ideological principles,
such as unity under a single monarch--hence, even the empire's strongest
domestic and foreign foes adopted the system of imperial rule. Yet details of
this rule were constantly negotiated and adjusted. Pines shows how deep tensions
between political actors including the emperor, the literati, local elites, and
rebellious commoners actually enabled the empire's basic institutional framework
to remain critically vital and adaptable to ever-changing sociopolitical
circumstances. As contemporary China moves toward a new period of prosperity and
power in the twenty-first century, Pines argues that the legacy of the empire
may become an increasingly important force in shaping the nation's future
trajectory.
目錄 Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vi i
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: The Ideal of "Great
Unity" 11
Chapter 2: The Monarch 44
Chapter 3: The Literati 76
Chapter
4: Local Elite 104
Chapter 5: The People 134
Chapter 6: Imperial Political
Culture in the Modern Age 162
Notes 185
Bibliography 209
Index
233
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