Governing China in the 21st Century: The Premodern State and Its Contemporary Impacts

Wang, Zhengxu

This book brings together a range of studies that aim at illustrating the ideas, institutions, historical patterns, and contemporary relevance of the social-political system that existed in the main part of East Asia during the premodern era. This is most often known as the Confucian literati-bureaucratic state, the imperial Chinese bureaucratic state, or the Confucian-Legalist state, that was established and endured most notably in China, but also in several East Asian societies such as Korea, Vietnam, Japan. That state and sociopolitical system also greatly shaped state making in several kingdoms in the region – such as Ryukyu and Dali – which were later merged into larger polities. Illuminating the significance of these historical patterns for today, this book will interest political scientists, historians, philosophers, and the general public.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-06-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789811987830

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-8784-7

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 5