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Chapter Three: Empire-building and Empire Maintenance
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Abstract:
China was not an empire until 221 BC when the Qin Kingdom succeeded in achieving two things for the first time in China's history: (1) It unified China through war and conquest, and (2) it implemented a centralised administration known as the ‘prefecture-county system’ (junxian zhi). This was a vital turning point in China's history and put China on a different trajectory — socially, politically, and economically.
