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State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China: The Collapse of the Qin Empire, 221–207 BCE. By Chun Fung TONG. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024. 248 pp. $99.00 (cloth), $34/95 (paper).

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State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China: The Collapse of the Qin Empire, 221–207 BCE. By Chun Fung TONG. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024. 248 pp. $99.00 (cloth), $34/95 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2025

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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , First View , pp. 1 - 4
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References

1 McAnany, Patricia and Yoffee, Norman, eds., Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Tong himself cites this book.

2 Pauline Sebillaud, “La distribution spatiale de l’habitat en Chine dans la plaine Centrale à la transition entre le Néolithique et l’âge du Bronze (env. 2500–1050 av. n. è.)” (Ph.D. dissertation, École Pratique des Hautes Études / Jilin University, 2014); Li, Jaang, Zhouyong, Sun, Jing, Shao, and Min, Li, “When Peripheries were Centres: A Preliminary Study of the Shimao-centred Polity in the Loess Highland, China.” Antiquity 92/364 (2018), 1008–1022 Google Scholar; Zhang Chi, A. Mark Pollard, Rawson, Jessica, and Limin, Huan, “China’s Major Late Neolithic Centres and the Rise of Erlitou.” Antiquity 93.3569 (2019), 588–603 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.