The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han.(Book review)

The Historian | March 22, 2009| | Copyright

The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. By Mark Edward Lewis. History of Imperial China, vol. 1, series edited by Timothy Brook. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 321. $29.95.)

Han China was roughly the equivalent in population, territory, and administrative sophistication to the Roman Empire. To provide a short, authoritative introduction to the period is a considerable challenge, but Mark Edward Lewis has succeeded admirably in his broad survey of Chinese history from 221 BC to AD 220. Early Chinese Empires is a remarkable work of scholarly ...

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