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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Mark Edward Lewis

Historian of early Chinese sanctioned violence and the formation of political order.

Why this matters

Lewis traces how force gets moralized into state ritual and story.

Focus in observatory

Works

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Sanctioned Violence in Early China

Lewis, Mark Edward. *Sanctioned Violence in Early China*. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.

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