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"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

"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.

Ritual figureheads -- Ways of monarchism -- The search for the ideal ruler -- An omnipotent rubber stamp -- The rise of the Shi -- To serve or not to serve -- Shi and the rulers -- Ruling for the people -- "Full bellies, empty hearts" -- The legacy of the Warring States

This text looks into the reasons for the durability of the Chinese empire. Pines identifies the roots of the empire's longevity in the activities of thinkers of the Warring States period who developed ideals, values, and perceptions that would become essential for the future imperial polity.

TheBook of Lord Shang, commonly identified as a major work of the so-called Legalist school, is also an important, albeit much neglected treatise in the history of Chinese military thought. Beyond specific recommendations concerning both defensive and offensive warfare, the book presents a coherent view that the state should restructure its socioeconomic and cultural policies in order to turn every man into a valiant soldier. The book epitomizes the ideology of "total war" in which the differences between civilian and military affairs are blurred. The society is profoundly militarized and the army, in turn, is profoundly bureaucratized.This article explores military thought in theBook of Lord Shangand focuses on its views of mobilization, indoctrination of soldiers, military discipline, rules of military engagement, and military command. I further deal with the question of why the book's military ideology has been all but neglected after the end of the Han dynasty.

In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin's cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China's history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.

All major continental empires proclaimed their desire to rule 'the entire world', investing considerable human and material resources in expanding their territory. Each, however, eventually had to stop expansion and come to terms with a shift to defensive strategy. This volume explores the factors that facilitated Eurasian empires' expansion and contraction: from ideology to ecology, economic and military considerations to changing composition of the imperial elites. Built around a common set of questions, a team of leading specialists systematically compare a broad set of Eurasian empires - from Achaemenid Iran, the Romans, Qin and Han China, via the Caliphate, the Byzantines and the Mongols to the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Russians, and Ming and Qing China. The result is a state-of-the art analysis of the major imperial enterprises in Eurasian history from antiquity to the early modern that discerns both commonalities and differences in the empires' spatial trajectories

Preliminary Material /Yuri Pines , Paul R. Goldin and Martin Kern -- Introduction /Yuri Pines -- 1 Representations of Regional Diversity during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty /Paul R. Goldin -- 2 Omens and Politics: The Zhou Concept of the Mandate of Heaven as Seen in the Chengwu 程寤 Manuscript /Luo Xinhui 羅新慧 -- 3 Long Live The King! The Ideology of Power between Ritual and Morality in the Gongyang zhuan 公羊傳 /Joachim Gentz -- 4 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the "Canon of Yao" /Martin Kern -- 5 Monarch and Minister: The Problematic Partnership in the Building of Absolute Monarchy in the Han Feizi 韓非子 /Romain Graziani -- 6 The Changing Role of the Minister in the Warring States: Evidence from the Yanzi chunqiu 晏子春秋 /Scott Cook -- 7 Ideologies of the Peasant and Merchant in Warring States China /Roel Sterckx -- 8 Population Records from Liye: Ideology in Practice /Charles Sanft -- 9 Political and Intellectual Authority: The Concept of the "Sage-Monarch" and Its Modern Fate /Liu Zehua 劉澤華 -- Bibliography /Yuri Pines , Paul R. Goldin and Martin Kern -- Index /Yuri Pines , Paul R. Goldin and Martin Kern.

"Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores ancient Chinese political thought during the centuries surrounding the formation of the empire in 221 BCE. The individual chapters examine the ideology and practices of legitimation, views of rulership, conceptualizations of ruler-minister relations, economic thought, and the bureaucratic administration of commoners. The contributors analyze the formation of power relations from various angles, ranging from artistic expression to religious ideas, political rhetoric, and administrative action. They demonstrate the interrelatedness of historiography and political ideology and show how the same text served both to strengthen the ruler's authority and moderate his excesses. Together, the chapters highlight the immense complexity of ancient Chinese political thought, and the deep tensions running within it. Contributors include Scott Cook, Joachim Gentz, Paul R. Goldin, Romain Graziani, Martin Kern, Liu Zehua, Luo Xinhui, Yuri Pines, Roel Sterckx, and Charles Sanft"--Provided by publisher.