Politics of the Past in Early China

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China. Leung explores why it was so important and to what end.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Time out of joint: uses of the past from the Western Zhou to the early warring states; 2. A parenthetical past: deep history and anti-history in the late warring states; 3. Specter of the past: bureaucratic amnesia under the Rise of the Qin Empire; 4. The rehabilitation of antiquity in the early Han Empire; 5. Sima Qian's critical past; Epilogue.

About the author

Vincent S. Leung is Associate Professor of Chinese history at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent S. Leung, Vincent S. (Lingnan University Leung
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108425728
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42572-8
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; China, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Asia / General, Politics & government, Historiography, Politics and government, Ancient History, Asian History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Early China; Historiography; Empires; Imperialism; Politics