Writing the First Empire from the Periphery: Review of Tong Chun Fung, State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China: The Collapse of the Qin Empire, 221-207 BCE New York: SUNY Press, 2024, 248pp.

Writing the First Empire from the Periphery: Review of Tong Chun Fung, State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China: The Collapse of the Qin Empire, 221-207 BCE New York: SUNY Press, 2024, 248pp.

Since the excavation and subsequent systematic publication of Liye Qin bamboo manuscripts里耶秦簡from western Hunan湖南, scholarship has increasingly turned to the local administration, economy and household management of the centralized yet ephemeral Qin empire.