The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development by

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How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China's history can help us better understand state building.Wang argues that Chinese rulers faced a fundamental trade-off that he calls the sovereign's dilemma: a coherent elite that could collectively strengthen the state could also overthrow the ruler. This dilemma emerged because strengthening state capacity and keeping rulers in power for longer required different social networks in which central elites were embedded. Wang examines how these social networks shaped the Chinese state, and vice versa, and he looks at how the ruler's pursuit of power by fragmenting the elites became the final culprit for China's fall.Drawing on more than a thousand years of Chinese history, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China highlights the role of elite social relations in influencing the trajectories of state development.

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Yuhua Wang is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Tying the Autocrat's Hands: The Rise of the Rule of Law in China.

Review

"Winner of the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association""A profound examination. . . . [and] a remarkable piece of scholarship."---Peng Peng, The Developing Economies"Compelling. . . . [The Rise and Fall of Imperial China] is essential reading for scholars of the Chinese state."---Guillaume Beaud, The International Spectator"Yuhua Wang's The Rise and Fall of Imperial China is a rare example of longue durée history that manages to maintain theoretical clarity and logical rigor throughout its analysis. Paired with a serious quantitative dive into primary sources and the intellectual vision to tease out common sociopolitical patterns across enormously diverse historical terrain, the book is a magnificent accomplishment that produces an intellectually powerful macronarrative about mid- and late imperial Chinese history"---Taisu Zhang, American Historical Review

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How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China's history can help us better understand state building. Wang argues that Chinese rulers faced a fundamental trade-off that he calls the sovereign's dilemma : a coherent elite that could collectively strengthen the state could also overthrow the ruler. This dilemma emerged because strengthening state capacity and keeping rulers in power for longer required different social networks in which central elites were embedded. Wang examines how these social networks shaped the Chinese state, and vice versa, and he looks at how the ruler's pursuit of power by fragmenting the elites became the final culprit for China's fall. Drawing on more than a thousand years of Chinese history, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China highlights the role of elite social relations in influencing the trajectories of state development.

Details ISBN0691215170 Author Yuhua Wang Publisher Princeton University Press Format Hardcover Series Princeton Studies in Contemporary China Year 2022 ISBN-13 9780691215174 Publication Date 2022-10-11 Imprint Princeton University Press Place of Publication New Jersey Country of Publication United States Illustrations 45 b/w illus. 17 tables. NZ Release Date 2022-10-11 US Release Date 2022-10-11 UK Release Date 2022-10-11 ISBN-10 0691215170 Pages 352 Subtitle The Social Origins of State Development Alternative 9780691215167 DEWEY 951.03 AU Release Date 2023-01-16 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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