1st Edition
Power and Order Social Governance in Imperial China
1. Introduction
Part 1: The Nature of the Imperial System
2. Ranking of Bureaucrats and Aristocrats in Imperial China: A Primer
Yan Buke
3. The Theory of Agro-Commercial Society: Core Concepts, Foundations, and Potential Areas of Research
Ge Jinfang
4. Imperial Autocracy from the Qin to the Qing: An Economic History Perspective
Li Zhenhong
5. Methods of Observing History: Insights from Urban Development in the Song Dynasty
Bao Weimi
Part 2: The Working Mechanism of Social Structure
6. A History of Public Opinion: Public Opinion and Political Order in Chinese History
Zhan Long
7. The Economy of Jiangnan during the Kaiyuan-Tianbao Age of Prosperity
Zhang Jianguang
8. Survival, Order, and Power Structure in Song China’s Rural Society: A Case Study of Corvée-Related Disputes
Geng Yuanli
9. Modern Fiscal Transformation in the Qing Dynasty
Ni Yuping
Part 3: The Lives of Officials and Ordinary People
10. The Yi Ying Stele and the Creation of a New Clerk Position
Hou Xudong
11. Truth and Fiction in Chuanqi Stories and Epitaphs about Tang Scholars’ Reinterment Efforts
Qiu Luming
12. Song Women’s Level of Literacy
Cheng Minsheng
13. Institutions, Order, and Fate: Stories from Three Lives in the Ming Dynasty
Peng Yong
Biography
Geng Yuanli, professor at the School of History and Culture, Henan University. Geng’s research focuses on the history of the Tang and Song dynasties. Geng is the author of A Study on the Evolution of Land Systems and Policies in the Tang and Song Dynasties and other works.
