Power of the Scholar and Power of the Monarch: A Political Power Analysis of Ancient China (Han, Wei, and the Six Dynasties)

Author: Li Jun
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book takes the interactive relationship between the political forces of scholar power and sovereign power as its basic perspective, employing research methods such as historical reconstruction, cultural interpretation, and psychological analysis. It focuses on the power dynamics and cultural functions of the Chinese scholar class within the political structure from the pre-Qin to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, as well as their role in balancing autocratic sovereignty. Additionally, it examines the essential characteristics and specific manifestations of monarchical autocratic politics in China before the Tang Dynasty by comparing the different features of Chinese and foreign political cultures. The book offers a broad perspective, is well-documented with historical materials, employs appropriate methods, presents rigorous arguments, offers novel insights, and is written in a fluent style. It is an invaluable and significant research achievement on traditional Chinese political culture in recent years, offering beneficial insights for China's political system reform in the 21st century.