The Establishment of the Han Bureaucracy: The Foundation of the Chinese State (200–100 BCE)

200 BCE · Chang'an · political

The Han empire developed the bureaucratic system it had inherited from Qin: a hierarchy of officials in 20 ranks; the system of commanderies (jun) and counties (xian); central control of taxation and of the army; and the concept of "tianxia" (all under heaven).

| The founding of the world's longest-lived tradition of bureaucratic government and the prototype of the modern Chinese state.

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What was The Establishment of the Han Bureaucracy: The Foundation of the Chinese State (200–100 BCE)?
The Han empire developed the bureaucratic system it had inherited from Qin: a hierarchy of officials in 20 ranks; the system of commanderies (jun) and counties (xian); central control of taxation and of the army; and the concept of "tianxia" (all under heaven).
When did The Establishment of the Han Bureaucracy: The Foundation of the Chinese State (200–100 BCE) happen?
200 BCE
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Chang'an