Tribute System and Rulership in Late Imperial China - Morris Rossabi - Books - V&R unipress GmbH - 9783847114024 - April 11, 2022
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Tribute System and Rulership in Late Imperial China

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Demanding and offering tribute is a most common feature in human societies and nothing special to China. In the course of the development of Neolithic societies social classes have developed where persons who achieved superior positions first could demand 'presents' or tribute from neighboring societies they defeated and then, with the assistance of sturdy 'servants' from their own people. China was certainly no exception to that principle and one of the first terms for tax was thus gong, tribute. In China's early, 'feudatory' social system, tribute was demanded from lower political entities, and the mutual 'political' relations were already highly developed during the Zhou dynasty (1045-256 BCE). This system of 'inner Chinese' relations became a sort of matrix when China expanded and achieved contact with countries which were more or less independent, and thus the 'tribute system' evolved.

366 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 11, 2022
Original release date 2023
ISBN13 9783847114024
Publishers V&R unipress GmbH
Pages 366
Dimensions 236 × 162 × 28 mm   ·   6.07 kg
Language German  
Editor Kauz, Ralph

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