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  • Recent discoveries of legal and administrative documents from the Qin and early Han have allowed us to form a much better perspective on the systems these two states implemented to govern their land and people. Texts from sites such as Shuihudi, Zhangjiashan, Liye, in particular, shed much light on how the state attempted to keep track of its population, through an expansive bureaucratic system that kept census records and tied individuals to their place of residence. These technologies of governance strengthened the state and laid the foundations for subsequent bureaucratic systems. Integral to this system was the requirement that the people make their own individual census reports and aid the state in enforcing the laws through the system of linked liability. Anthony Barbieri-Low and Robin Yates’ recent publication Law, State, and Society in early Imperial China gives us a detailed overview of how the state used the legal system to govern the population. This presentation will investigate the alternate side of the topic, by looking at the people, rather than the state. Using similar source materials, particularly the legal statutes and the Book of Submitted Doubtful Cases from Zhangjiashan, my research looks at how these legal and social systems, particularly the census exercises, caused people to change their own behaviour, and how people shaped their identities through these systems. These individual attempts at governing the self functioned in tandem with the state bureaucracy, whether intentionally or not, to create a more governable population.

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