A marca do primeiro imperador da China no cenário distante de Shandong oriental

The imprint of China’s first emperor on the distant realm of eastern Shandong

1. Gary M. Feinman a,1,

2. Linda M. Nicholas a, and

3. Fang Hui b

-Author Affiliations

1. aDepartment of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605; and

2. bSchool of History and Culture, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

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1. Edited* by Joyce Marcus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, and approved January 29, 2010 (received for review December 29, 2009)

Abstract

Imperial expansion is recurrent in human history. For early empires, such as in ancient China, this process generally is known from texts that glorify and present the perspective of victors. The legacy of the Qin king, Shihuangdi, who first unified China in 221 BC, remains vital, but we have few details about the consequences of his distant conquests or how they changed the path of local histories. We integrate documentary accounts with the findings of a systematic regional survey of archaeological sites to provide a holistic context for this imperialistic episode and the changes that followed in coastal Shandong.


· archaeological survey       full-coverage settlement patterns      Langyatai Qin and Han Empires Shihuangdi

Footnotes

· 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:gfeinman@fieldmuseum.org.

· Author contributions: G.M.F., L.M.N., and F.H. performed research and wrote the paper.

· ↵* This Direct Submission article had a prearranged editor.

· The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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