Knowledge Production in China’s Early Empires

IF 0.5 4区 社会学 0 ASIAN STUDIES JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI:10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.ar032
Maxim Korolkov, Brian Lander
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This paper examines how officials of the Qin (221–207 BCE) and Former Han (202 BCE–9 CE) empires gathered information on their far-flung domains. These empires were able to maintain control over large areas of the East Asian subcontinent because they had an effective system for obtaining information on the things that mattered most to them: people, land, resources, and transport. We have various sources on these information collection systems from both excavated and received texts. These can be considered to include not only maps, surveys, and population records, but also communication infrastructures such as roads, canals, and postal systems. The information-gathering systems of this period are important both because they worked relatively well and because they were recorded in the histories and became a model for later administrators.
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中国早期帝国的知识生产
本文探讨了秦帝国(公元前 221-207 年)和前汉帝国(公元前 202 年至公元前 9 年)的官员如何收集其遥远领地的信息。这些帝国之所以能够保持对东亚次大陆大片地区的控制,是因为他们有一套有效的系统来获取对他们来说最重要的信息:人口、土地、资源和交通。关于这些信息收集系统,我们从出土文物和接受的文献中获得了各种资料。这些系统不仅包括地图、调查和人口记录,还包括道路、运河和邮政系统等通信基础设施。这一时期的信息收集系统之所以重要,一是因为它们运行得相对良好,二是因为它们被载入史册,成为后来管理者的典范。
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期刊介绍: The American Oriental Society is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to a particular field of scholarship. The Society was founded in 1842, preceded only by such distinguished organizations of general scope as the American Philosophical Society (1743), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780), and the American Antiquarian Society (1812). From the beginning its aims have been humanistic. The encouragement of basic research in the languages and literatures of Asia has always been central in its tradition. This tradition has come to include such subjects as philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography, epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectual and imaginative aspects of Oriental civilizations.
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