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The Bureaucracy of Han Times

Bielenstein, Hans·1980·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/cbo9780511759727
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This is a comprehensive and fully documented study of Chinese bureaucracy during the Han period, when many of the basic lines of Chinese government practice were laid down. It is also more detailed and wider in scope than similar works on other periods of Chinese history. The book covers the time from 202 BC to AD 9 and from AD 25 to 189, analysing and describing the central and local administrations, the army, official salaries, civil service recruitment and power in government. Professor Bielenstein translates all Chinese official titles and includes alphabetical lists of these titles with their English and Chinese equivalents. Thus his book will serve both as a description for the names of offices at every level of government. The book will be of interest to all scholars of Chinese history, as well as to experts in other fields of institutional history, government and political science.

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  • The view that empress-dowagers were obliged to govern through male kinsmen is mistaken.

    “Some scholars believe that empress-dowagers were obliged to govern through their male kinsmen.Bielenstein 1980, 152, for example, identifies the office of General-in-Chief [as below] with active regency power.This interpretation is mistaken.”

    From Women of Later Han (2019) · cites this paper as Bielenstein 1980

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Authors
Bielenstein, H.
Corresponding author
Bielenstein, Hans
Venue
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
1980-09-11
DOI
10.1017/cbo9780511759727
OpenAlex
W2143074153
Cited by
176
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 1
FWCI
1.86
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 10919 d)
Locations
Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Chinese history and philosophy
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Historical and Political Studies
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
Keywords
Chinese bureaucracy, Han dynasty, central and local government, Chinese army, official salaries, civil service recruitment, official titles, institutional history, Chinese political institutions

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