The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy

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. This book demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid ideological premises.

• | Author: Yuri Pines
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: May 27, 2012
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780691134956
• | ISBN-10: 0691134952