Meritocracy and Dynasticism in Ancient and Medieval China (16)

该子项目考察了前现代中国两种相互竞争的证明“家族”的模式：一种是凭借能力，另一种是凭借血统。它基于这样一个假设，即君主统治的主要机构，即。G.抗议或法庭会议，可以被视为平衡这两种合法要求的机制。重点是在中华帝国早期的招聘精英原则的应用，以及篡夺的制度，这使得精英精英取代王朝统治者，并重新调整合法化统治的两种方式，再次建立一个“合作竞争”的平衡。

The sub-project investigates two competing modes of justifying ‘Herrschaft’ in premodern China: one by virtue of competence, the other by virtue of descent. It rests on the assumption that the main institutions of monarchic rule, e. g. remonstrance or court conferences, can be conceived of as mechanisms to equilibrate these two legitimatory claims. The focus is on the application of meritocratic principles of recruitment in the early Chinese Empire as well as on the institution of usurpation, which enabled meritocratic elites to replace the dynastic ruler and realign the two ways of legitimizing rule, establishing a ‘coopetitive’ balance once again.