Birth of an Empire
The State of Qin Revisited
Published on 16. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-1-938169-07-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-938169-07-6 (9781938169076)
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Yuri Pines is Michael W. Lipson Professor of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Lothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA. Gideon Shelach is Lous Freiberg Professor of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Robin D.S. Yates is James McGill Professor of East Asian Studies and History and Classical Studies and chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University.