State Power in Ancient China and Rome

Oxford Studies in Early Empires

Edited by Walter Scheidel

Contents

Walter Scheidel (Stanford University): Introduction

Dingxin Zhao (University of Chicago): Han bureaucracy

Peter Eich (University of Freiburg): Roman bureaucracy

Corey Brennan (Rutgers University): Deliberation and policy-making in Rome and China

Michael Puett (Harvard University): Religious aspects of emperorship in ancient China and Rome

Walter Scheidel (Stanford University): Revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman empires

Peter Bang and Karen Turner (College of the Holy Cross): Imperial élites in Rome and China

Mark Lewis (Stanford University): Han urbanism

Carlos Noreña (UC Berkeley): Roman urbanism