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This chapter examines several highly representative issues pertaining to the history of ancient Chinese and Japanese political and social development, not toward the aim of drawing definite conclusions, but to depict these subjects in their totality by examining select case studies, and in so doing underscore the importance of the comparative study of ancient Chinese and Japanese political and social structures and encourage scholars from both countries to take greater interest in such research. The topics discussed in this chapter included: (1) Chinese and Japanese emperors; (2) The imperial examination system and Japan; (3) The law systems and land systems of Tang China and Japan; (4) The Chinese centralized authority system and the shogunate system.
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Jiang, L. et al. (2023). A Comparison of Chinese and Japanese Political and Social Structures. In: Bu, P., Kitaoka, S. (eds) The History of China–Japan Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5599-0_7
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