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Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest

By Michael Loewe

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2016
ISBN
9004314881, 9789004314887
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4439739 bytes)
Series
China Studies
Pages
326\340
Topic
History
Time added
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"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"--Provided by publisher.

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