The ‘Sovereign’s Dilemma’: Accounting for State Development in Imperial China

Review of: The rise and fall of imperial China : the social origins of state development / Yuhua Wang. - Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2022. - xviii, 329 p. : ill. - (Princeton studies in contemporary China). - ISBN 978-0-691-21517-4 ; 978-0-691-21516-7 (pbk) ; 978-0-691-23751-0 (ebk)