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Writing and the Ancient State: Early China in Comparative Perspective. By Haicheng Wang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 427 pp. $99.00 (cloth, ISBN 9781107028128); $79.00 (e-book, ISBN 9781107785724).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2015

Roderick Campbell*
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New York University
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Book Reviews—Asia Comparative/Transnational
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 

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1 John Baines and Norman Yoffee, “Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia,” in Archaic States, eds. Gary Feinman and Joyce Marcus, 199–260 (Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research Press, 1998); James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998); Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983); Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation,” in Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, trans. and eds., 77–128 (New York: Oxford University Press, [1919] 1946).