The Rise and Fall of China: the Gains and Losses of China's Two Thousand Years of Governance

In the development and changes of ancient China's national governance system, why did Confucianism become the core value? Which eight emperors played a decisive role? What systems govern the control and mobilization of social resources? … This book is a political history of ancient China with a novel perspective. It completely reveals the operational logic of the imperial power system of the post-Qin unification imperial state, and attempts to find the rules of change, reveal the reasons for the cycle of dynasties, and summarize historical gains and losses. The author combines the stories of dozens of emperors with a broad historical perspective. It is not only a collection of comments by Chinese emperors of all dynasties, but also combs through two thousand years of Chinese political history, allowing readers to quickly understand the mechanisms of the rise and fall of imperial China over the past two thousand years.