Li Feng,Bureaucracy and the State in Early China:Governing the Western Zhou

The field of Early China studies is sometimes faulted for being arcane.But here for once is a book that addresses an issue of obvious relevance to our world:the roots of Chinese bureaucracy.Li Feng plumbs the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou period for information on govemment officeholders and their activities,and he presents a complex and largely plausible reconstruction of the operation of the royal administration.