Ancient Classics and Rites Questions

Author: Hua Qiang
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Ancient institutional systems were exceptionally complex, and a single aspect alone could fill a monograph of hundreds of thousands of words. For example, the system of official ranks, which historians universally agree is highly complex, was covered in a five-hundred-thousand-word treatise titled The Official System of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by the scholar Sheng Xunchang. Therefore, this book of only ten thousand or so words can only provide a very general introduction to ancient institutional systems. The author hopes this book can spark a little interest in readers for these systems, inspire them a little, and provide them with some benefit—nothing more.