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Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy: Variations on a Theme

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Author(s): Étienne Balazs
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 1964

Language: English
City: New Haven and London

Contents (vii)
Introduction (ix)
I. Institutions (1)
1. 1952 Significant Aspects of Chinese Society (3)
2. 1957 China as a Permanently Bureaucratic Society (13)
3. Chinese Feudalism (28)
4. The Birth of Capitalism in China (34)
5. Fairs in China (55)
6. Chinese Towns (66)
7. Marco Polo in the Capital of China (79)
8. Evolution of Landownership in Fourth- and Fifth-Century China (101)
9. Landownership in China from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century (113)
II. History (127)
10. History as a Guide to Bureaucratic Practice (129)
11. Tradition and Revolution in China (150)
III. Thought (171)
12. Two Songs by Ts'ao Ts'ao (173)
13. Political Philosophy and Social Crisis at the End of the Han Dynasty (187)
14. Nihilistic Revolt or Mystical Escapism (226)
15. The First Chinese Materialist (255)
16. A Forerunner of Wang An-shih (277)
Chronology (291)
Index (297)