진한(秦漢) 제국(帝國)의 의의와 유산 = The heritage of Qin-Han Empire

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Qin-Han empire were the first empire in East Asia. Although those empires began with the appearance of a firstly unified dynasty and Huangdi 皇帝, emperor) which was a newly originated ruler, the features and dignities of those empires need more discussing. Qin-Han dynasty are estimated ancient empires in their unification, centralization, sizes, populations, durance, and superiority to other dynasties that time. Only after Qin-shihuangdi (秦始皇帝)unified the China, Qin was collapsed within fifteen years. But according to recent research the imperial master plan which had been invented by the first emperor was succeeded completely to Han empire, so historians don’t regard two empires as discontinuous one, but continuous one. It was Han-wudi(漢武帝) who completed the ancient empire. He not only renovated and upgraded political, economical, social systems, but also enlarged imperial territory and pioneered the Silk Road. The nature of Qin-Han empires was revealed through newly excavated materials and data, for examples mausoleums of the first emperor and Han emperors, bamboo-silk documents on law and governmental administration.