古代の東アジアにおける暴力と中央集権国家の興隆 Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia (Elements in Ancient East Asia)

Lewis, Mark Edward

Cambridge University Press（2022/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 75 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108972147
• DDC分類 303.60931

Full Description

Violence, both physical and nonphysical, is central to any society, but it is a version of the problem that it claims to solve. This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia, from the late Shang through the end of the Han dynasty, wielded violence to create and display authority, and also how their licit violence was entangled in the 'savage' or 'criminal' violence whose suppression justified their power. The East Asian cases are supplemented through citing comparable Western ones. The themes examined include the emergence of the warrior as a human type, the overlap of hunts and combat (and the overlap between treatments of alien species and alien peoples), sacrifice of both alien captives and 'death attendants' from one's own groups, the impact of military specialization and the increased scale of armies, the emergent ideal of self-sacrifice, and the diverse aspects of violence in the regime of law.

Contents

1. Definitions; 2. Violence in the Shang world and other 'bronze age theocracies'; 3. Violence in the eastern Zhou: spring and autumn through the warring states; 4. Violence under the early empires; 5. Conclusion.