The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and world history

The Resource The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and world history

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The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and world history

Statement of responsibility

by Andrew Chittick

Language

eng

Summary

This work offers a sweeping reassessment of the Jiankang Empire (third to sixth centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist history, and proposes a new framework and terminology for writing about medieval East Asia. The book pays particular attention to the problem of ethnic identification, rejecting the idea of "ethnic Chinese," and delineating several other, more useful ethnographic categories, using case studies in agriculture/foodways and vernacular languages. The most important, the Wuren of the lower Yangzi region, were believed to be inherently different from the peoples of the Central Plains, and the rest of the book addresses the extent of their ethnogenesis in the medieval era

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

931.04

Index

index present

Intended audience

Specialized

LC call number

DS748.17

LC item number

.C4985 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Oxford studies in early empires
Oxford scholarship online

Target audience

specialized

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