State-induced migration and the creation of state spaces in early Chinese empires: perspectives from history and archaeology
In ancient China, as elsewhere, states did not simply occupy a given territory but actively engaged in the production of space by transforming landscapes, moving populations, and enacting territorial hierarchies, thus creating “state spaces”, to borrow a term coined by James C. Scott. In the case of...
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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