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This book uses Song China to explain how a pre-industrial regime organized itself spatially in order to exercise authority. By detailing the relationship between the court and local administration, Mostern complicates the received paradigm of Song centralization and decentralization.

Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 02/05/2011
      ISBN13: 9780674056022, 978-0674056022
      ISBN10: 0674056027

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      Book Synopsis
      This book uses Song China to explain how a pre-industrial regime organized itself spatially in order to exercise authority. By detailing the relationship between the court and local administration, Mostern complicates the received paradigm of Song centralization and decentralization.

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