I argue that this controversy provides a background for understanding the aspects of physical mobility of the officials as reflected in the Qin and Han documents. I consider the controversial nature and miscellaneous manifestations of the state’s involvement in the issues of physical mobility of its subjects during the late Warring States and early imperial period. This paper analyses the aspects of physical mobility of the officials – the only social group in early imperial China that left over a variety of first-hand written sources reflecting their everyday experiences, practices, and concerns. The physical mobility, or the ability of humans to move around their environment, may be considered as one of the key determinants of social life, and the capacity to grant, restrict, or otherwise control this ability was, in all historical societies, congruent with, and principal for social, political, and economic power.
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