In 221 B.C. the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In the first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, Lewis highlights the key challenges facing the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity.
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han . By Mark Edward Lewis . History of Imperial China, vol. 1, series edited by Timothy Brook . ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2007 . Pp. 321 . $29.95 .)
Lewis, Mark Edward. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.