Later Han civil administration
Abstract
[An Outline of the Civil Administration of the Later Han Empire. Based on the Introduction to: Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling: being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 157 to 189 AD as recorded in Chapters 54 to 59 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang, translated and annotated by Rafe de Crespigny. Asian Studies Monographs, New Series No. 12, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra 1989 ISBN 0 7315 0655 3] In the Introduction to Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling, I gave a summary account of the civil administration of Later Han, which I now present in Internet form. More recently, however, I have adopted slightly modified renderings for a number of titles, which vary from the system established by H H Dubs and followed by Hans Bielenstein in The Bureaucracy of Han Times [Cambridge UP, 1975]. As appropriate I indicate the forms used by Dubs and/or Bielenstein.