Challenges traditional views of the Qin dynasty as an oppressive regime by revealing cooperative aspects of its governance. This revealing book challenges longs

Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.

State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China delves into the governance and capacity of the state by providing an empirical historical study of the collap

The Politics of Mourning in Early China reevaluates the longstanding assumptions about early imperial political culture. According to most explanations, filial

Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at o