Maxim Korolkov
Biographic Data
| ID | 444852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxim Korolkov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxim |
| FAMILY NAME | Korolkov |
| SIGNATURE | KOROLKOV M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7674-5410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE)
Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered the image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine environments. It is known, for example, that East Asia's largest settlements and hydraulic infrastructures in the third millennium BCE were located in the Yangzi valley, as were some of the most sophisticated metallurgical centers of the following millennium. If southern East Asia was not a backward periphe…
Oriental Despotism Revisited: Organization of Water Works and Trajectories of State Power in Ancient China
Les hypothèses hydrauliques de Wittfogel ont été longtemps critiquées, notamment par les spécialistes de la Chine. Pourtant, l’archéologie comme les écrits sur l’ingénierie hydraulique de la Chine ancienne soulignent une corrélation entre l’ampleur de la gestion de l’eau et l’essor du pouvoir de l’État. Dans cet article, je démontre que la régulation hydraulique a cependant rarement été la force motrice de l’organisation de l’État, malgré l’impor…
State, Local Communities, and Water Management at the Dawn of China's Imperial Era in the Light of Newly Excavated Documents
As the early Chinese empires conquered the Yangzi Valley, they came to govern people who relied on engineered water-control systems to irrigate their fields and prevent the flooding of their settlements. Recently excavated documents reflect the growth of legislation on water management at the dawn of the imperial era, leading up to the composition of the first statute specially devoted to hydraulic administration during the reign of Emperor Wen. …
Building Empire, Creating Markets: Commercial Policies and Practices in Imperial Qin (221–207 BCE)
The expansion of states played a crucial role in the commercial growth in the ancient world. The empires provided physical infrastructures, such as roads, and institutions, such as legal order and standardized currencies, that reduced the transaction costs of economic exchanges. Expensive activities by the imperial governments, including military conquests and urban development, required efficient mechanisms for accumulating, transforming, and tr…
The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire
Brian Lander defines his project as “the first English-language monograph on the environmental history of early China” (11). Lander tells the story of people in early China transforming the environment through the combination of technology and social organization, culminating in a centralized bureaucratic empire. Natural ecosystems were replaced with artificial ones, which were amenable to the extraction of energy by humans in general and state r…
Knowledge Production in China's Early Empires: How Qin and Han Officials Gathered Information
This paper examines how officials of the Qin (221-207 BCE) and Former Han (202 BCE-9 CE) empires gathered information on their far-flung domains. These empires were able to maintain control over large areas of the East Asian subcontinent because they had an effective system for obtaining information on the things that mattered most to them: people, land, resources, and transport. We have various sources on these information collection systems fro…
The Cambridge Economic History of China
This landmark book is the most recent installment in the impressive array of economic histories by Cambridge University Press. The thirty-nine chapters across two volumes cover the period between the emergence of territorial states and urban economies in East Asia in the first millennium BCE and China's present-day bid to become the global leader in technology, international trade, and infrastructural development. The editors are suited to the ta…
The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia
This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca. 400 BCE–200 CE as a network-based process, showing how the geography of early interregional contacts south of the Yangzi River informed the directions of Sinitic state expansion. Drawing from an extensive collection of sources including transmitted textual records, archaeological evidence, excavated legal manuscripts, and archival documents from Liye, this book …
State-Induced Migration and the Creation of State Spaces in Early Chinese Empires: Perspectives from History and Archaeology
In ancient China, as elsewhere, states did not simply occupy a given territory but actively engaged in the production of space by transforming landscapes, moving populations, and enacting territorial hierarchies, thus creating “state spaces,” to borrow a term coined by James C. Scott. In the case of the early Chinese empires of Qin (221–207 BCE) and Han (202 BCE–220 CE), state-induced migration and settlement were key instruments of military cont…
Legal Process Unearthed: A New Source of Legal History of Early Imperial China
A group of Qin documents inscribed on bamboo slips was acquired by the Yuelu Academy on the antique market in Hong Kong in 2007. Four of these manuscripts are criminal case records dated from the final decades before the unification of China by the state of Qin in 221 B.C. These texts shed light not only on the administration of justice on the eve of imperial unification but also on various aspects of social, economic, and cultural history and hi…
Greeting Tablets” in Early China
Since the 1930s, Chinese archaeologists have discovered a number of inscribed wooden tablets from the early Han to the Western Jin, which were identified as “greeting tablets” of two types, ci 刺 and ye 謁. As attested in transmitted accounts, these tablets played an important role in the communicative etiquette of early imperial and early medieval officialdom; during a meeting ceremony, they were presented by the guest to the host. The present art…
Arguing about Law: Interrogation Procedure under the Qin and Former Han dynasties
法 律 辯 論 : 秦 漢 審 訊 程 序 馬 碩 本 文 對 近 幾 十 年 來 考 古 發 現 的 秦 及 西 漢 簡 牘 文 書 所 反 映 的 秦 漢 刑 事 訴 訟 中 的 審 訊 程 序 進 行 探 討 。 研 究 指 出 , 受 訊 人 包 括 嫌 疑 人 和 作 證 人 享 有 現 代 法 律 社 會 學 學 者 所 謂 的 “ 程 序 控 制 ” 。 法 律 對 司 法 官 吏 使 用 刑 訊 具 有 嚴 格 的 限 制 , 因 而 任 意 使 用 刑 訊 的 司 法 官 可 能 會 遭 到 處 罰 。 為 了 對 這 些 秦 漢 審 訊 程 序 的 特 徵 提 供 解 釋 , 本 文 分 析 討 論 秦 漢 司 法 程 序 與 中 華 帝 國 形 成 的 聯 繫 , 並 且 將 審 訊 程 序 視 爲 重 要 的 政 治 策 略 , 其 目 標 在 於 建 構 統 一 的 社 會 倫 理 辯 論 範 圍 , 在 於 使 原 先 具 有 不 同 的 倫 理 和 價 值 …
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Arguing about Law: Interrogation Procedure under the Qin and Former Han dynasties
法 律 辯 論 : 秦 漢 審 訊 程 序 馬 碩 本 文 對 近 幾 十 年 來 考 古 發 現 的 秦 及 西 漢 簡 牘 文 書 所 反 映 的 秦 漢 刑 事 訴 訟 中 的 審 訊 程 序 進 行 探 討 。 研 究 指 出 , 受 訊 人 包 括 嫌 疑 人 和 作 證 人 享 有 現 代 法 律 社 會 學 學 者 所 謂 的 “ 程 序 控 制 ” 。 法 律 對 司 法 官 吏 使 用 刑 訊 具 有 嚴 格 的 限 制 , 因 而 任 意 使 用 刑 訊 的 司 法 官 可 能 會 遭 到 處 罰 。 為 了 對 這 些 秦 漢 審 訊 程 序 的 特 徵 提 供 解 釋 , 本 文 分 析 討 論 秦 漢 司 法 程 序 與 中 華 帝 國 形 成 的 聯 繫 , 並 且 將 審 訊 程 序 視 爲 重 要 的 政 治 策 略 , 其 目 標 在 於 建 構 統 一 的 社 會 倫 理 辯 論 範 圍 , 在 於 使 原 先 具 有 不 同 的 倫 理 和 價 值 …
Greeting Tablets” in Early China
Since the 1930s, Chinese archaeologists have discovered a number of inscribed wooden tablets from the early Han to the Western Jin, which were identified as “greeting tablets” of two types, ci 刺 and ye 謁. As attested in transmitted accounts, these tablets played an important role in the communicative etiquette of early imperial and early medieval officialdom; during a meeting ceremony, they were presented by the guest to the host. The present art…
The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia
This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca. 400 BCE–200 CE as a network-based process, showing how the geography of early interregional contacts south of the Yangzi River informed the directions of Sinitic state expansion. Drawing from an extensive collection of sources including transmitted textual records, archaeological evidence, excavated legal manuscripts, and archival documents from Liye, this book …
State-Induced Migration and the Creation of State Spaces in Early Chinese Empires: Perspectives from History and Archaeology
In ancient China, as elsewhere, states did not simply occupy a given territory but actively engaged in the production of space by transforming landscapes, moving populations, and enacting territorial hierarchies, thus creating “state spaces,” to borrow a term coined by James C. Scott. In the case of the early Chinese empires of Qin (221–207 BCE) and Han (202 BCE–220 CE), state-induced migration and settlement were key instruments of military cont…
Legal Process Unearthed: A New Source of Legal History of Early Imperial China
A group of Qin documents inscribed on bamboo slips was acquired by the Yuelu Academy on the antique market in Hong Kong in 2007. Four of these manuscripts are criminal case records dated from the final decades before the unification of China by the state of Qin in 221 B.C. These texts shed light not only on the administration of justice on the eve of imperial unification but also on various aspects of social, economic, and cultural history and hi…
Building Empire, Creating Markets: Commercial Policies and Practices in Imperial Qin (221–207 BCE)
The expansion of states played a crucial role in the commercial growth in the ancient world. The empires provided physical infrastructures, such as roads, and institutions, such as legal order and standardized currencies, that reduced the transaction costs of economic exchanges. Expensive activities by the imperial governments, including military conquests and urban development, required efficient mechanisms for accumulating, transforming, and tr…
The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire
Brian Lander defines his project as “the first English-language monograph on the environmental history of early China” (11). Lander tells the story of people in early China transforming the environment through the combination of technology and social organization, culminating in a centralized bureaucratic empire. Natural ecosystems were replaced with artificial ones, which were amenable to the extraction of energy by humans in general and state r…
Knowledge Production in China's Early Empires: How Qin and Han Officials Gathered Information
This paper examines how officials of the Qin (221-207 BCE) and Former Han (202 BCE-9 CE) empires gathered information on their far-flung domains. These empires were able to maintain control over large areas of the East Asian subcontinent because they had an effective system for obtaining information on the things that mattered most to them: people, land, resources, and transport. We have various sources on these information collection systems fro…
The Cambridge Economic History of China
This landmark book is the most recent installment in the impressive array of economic histories by Cambridge University Press. The thirty-nine chapters across two volumes cover the period between the emergence of territorial states and urban economies in East Asia in the first millennium BCE and China's present-day bid to become the global leader in technology, international trade, and infrastructural development. The editors are suited to the ta…
State, Local Communities, and Water Management at the Dawn of China's Imperial Era in the Light of Newly Excavated Documents
As the early Chinese empires conquered the Yangzi Valley, they came to govern people who relied on engineered water-control systems to irrigate their fields and prevent the flooding of their settlements. Recently excavated documents reflect the growth of legislation on water management at the dawn of the imperial era, leading up to the composition of the first statute specially devoted to hydraulic administration during the reign of Emperor Wen. …
Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE)
Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered the image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine environments. It is known, for example, that East Asia's largest settlements and hydraulic infrastructures in the third millennium BCE were located in the Yangzi valley, as were some of the most sophisticated metallurgical centers of the following millennium. If southern East Asia was not a backward periphe…
Oriental Despotism Revisited: Organization of Water Works and Trajectories of State Power in Ancient China
Les hypothèses hydrauliques de Wittfogel ont été longtemps critiquées, notamment par les spécialistes de la Chine. Pourtant, l’archéologie comme les écrits sur l’ingénierie hydraulique de la Chine ancienne soulignent une corrélation entre l’ampleur de la gestion de l’eau et l’essor du pouvoir de l’État. Dans cet article, je démontre que la régulation hydraulique a cependant rarement été la force motrice de l’organisation de l’État, malgré l’impor…
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