Information and Power: Clerical Administration in the Song Dynasty
by Li Quande
About This Novel
Ruling the world with documents is a prominent feature of the ancient Chinese state bureaucracy, and the differences in information communication and processing mechanisms in different periods also reveal their different era personalities and power operation methods. The clerical administration of the Song Dynasty relied on diversified information communication and a developed clerical system, and the depth it could achieve was far beyond that of previous generations. This book combs through the multiple channels of information communication that coexisted and competed with each other in the Song Dynasty. It analyzes the power operation mechanism under the political structure of the scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty starting from the daily administrative documents of the emperor and ministers such as imperial approval, provincial letters, and approval petitions, as well as the refutation system for decision-making behaviors.
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