The Beginnings of Bureaucracy in China: The Origin of theHsien
- 1 February 1964
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Journal of Asian Studies
- Vol. 23 (2) , 155-184
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2050130
Abstract
Accounts of China's contributions to world culture have progessed far beyond the “paper and gunpowder” stage, but even today they seldom emphasize the Chinese role in developing techniques essential to what is known as “the modern, centralized, bureaucratic state.” This is somewhat curious, since complex organization on a vast scale is more characteristic of our age than any other activity, and it is in precisely this field that the Chinese have probably made their most important contribution.Keywords
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