000471060 000__ 03383cam\a2200409Ia\4500 000471060 001__ 471060 000471060 005__ 20210513163917.0 000471060 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000471060 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000471060 008__ 131125s2012\\\\njub\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000471060 010__ $$z 2011036388 000471060 020__ $$a9781400842278 (electronic bk.) 000471060 020__ $$z9780691134956 000471060 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn782923553 000471060 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10546022 000471060 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000471060 05014 $$aJQ1510$$b.P56 2012eb 000471060 08204 $$a306.20951$$223 000471060 1001_ $$aPines, Yuri. 000471060 24514 $$aThe everlasting empire$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe political culture of ancient China and its imperial legacy /$$cYuri Pines. 000471060 260__ $$aPrinceton, N.J. :$$bPrinceton University Press,$$c2012. 000471060 300__ $$a1 online resource (vii, 245 p.) :$$bmap. 000471060 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000471060 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- The ideal of "great unity" -- The monarch -- The literati -- Local elite -- The people -- Imperial political culture in the modern age. 000471060 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000471060 520__ $$a"Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet fundamental institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural features of the empire remained intact. The Everlasting Empire traces the roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and unparalleled political durability, and shows how lessons from the imperial past are relevant for China today. Yuri Pines demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid ideological premises and their flexible implementation. The empire's major political actors and neighbors shared its fundamental ideological principles, such as unity under a single monarch--hence, even the empire's strongest domestic and foreign foes adopted the system of imperial rule. Yet details of this rule were constantly negotiated and adjusted. Pines shows how deep tensions between political actors including the emperor, the literati, local elites, and rebellious commoners actually enabled the empire's basic institutional framework to remain critically vital and adaptable to ever-changing sociopolitical circumstances. As contemporary China moves toward a new period of prosperity and power in the twenty-first century, Pines argues that the legacy of the empire may become an increasingly important force in shaping the nation's future trajectory."--pub. desc. 000471060 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000471060 650_0 $$aPolitical culture$$zChina$$xHistory. 000471060 650_0 $$aPolitical science$$zChina$$xPhilosophy$$xHistory. 000471060 650_0 $$aImperialism$$zChina$$xHistory. 000471060 650_0 $$aIdeology$$zChina$$xHistory. 000471060 651_0 $$aChina$$xPolitics and government. 000471060 655_7 $$aElectronic books.$$2lcsh 000471060 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aPines, Yuri.$$tEverlasting empire.$$dPrinceton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, c2012$$z9780691134956$$w(DLC) 2011036388$$w(OCoLC)752286956 000471060 8520_ $$bacq 000471060 85280 $$bebk$$hEbrary 000471060 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=879137$$zOnline Access 000471060 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:471060$$pGLOBAL_SET 000471060 980__ $$aEBOOK 000471060 980__ $$aBIB 000471060 982__ $$aEbook 000471060 983__ $$aOnline