Bureaucracy and the State in Early China
Governing the Western Zhou
Medieval History
Li Feng
Cambridge University Press 2008
Hardback 400 pages  
0521884470 | 9780521884471 |  Product code: 89186  
The government of the Western Zhou between 1045 and 771 BCE involved a sophisticated and complex bureaucracy which is one of the earliest documented attempts to manage a state's affairs. Li Feng investigates the origins and operation of this bureaucracy by examining recently-discovered inscriptions of royal edicts on bronze vessels which reveal how authority was exercised. Using this evidence he formulates a new theory of the Western Zhou as a kin-ordered and settlement-based state.
 
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