The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 April 2020
- ISBN 9780190937546
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages424 pages
- Size 239x150x35 mm
- Weight 726 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book offers a sweeping re-assessment of a critical period of Chinese history, showing how the Jiankang Empire, in what is now south China, once resisted the imperialist pressure of the north and developed its own distinctive pattern of ethnic identification and political culture. The book includes close studies of foodways, language, military history, economic history, vernacular culture and the political use of Buddhism. The result is a surprising, innovative interpretation of Chinese history that emphasizes the south's close relationship to Southeast Asia and the ways it was comparable to other medieval societies.
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This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th 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. It assesses the political culture of the Jiankang Empire, emphasizing military strategy, institutional cultures, and political economy, showing how it differed from Central Plains-based empires, while having significant similarities to Southeast Asian regimes. It then explores how the Jiankang monarchs deployed three distinct repertoires of political legitimation (vernacular, Sinitic universalist, and Buddhist), arguing that the Sinitic repertoire was largely eclipsed in the sixth century, rendering the regime yet more similar to neighboring South Seas states. The conclusion points out how the research re-orients our understanding of acculturation and ethnic identification in medieval East Asia, generates new insights into the Tang-Song transition period, and offers new avenues of comparison with Southeast Asian and medieval European history.
The book is bound to stimulate debate and inspire exciting research across these fields.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1 Introduction: The Invisible Empire
Section One: Proto-Ethnic Identities
2 The Discourse of Ethnicity
3 Agriculture and Foodways
4 Vernacular Languages
Section Two: Political Culture
5 Marking Territory: The Militarization of the Huai Frontier
6 Making Hierarchy: Garrison, Court, and the Structure of Jiankang Politics
7 Managing Prosperity: The Political Economy of a Commercial Empire
Section Three: Repertoires of Legitimation
8 The Vernacular Repertoire
9 The Sinitic Repertoire
10 The Buddhist Repertoire: The Era of Pluralist Patronage
11 The Buddhist Repertoire: Jiankang as Theater State
12 Conclusion: Re-Orienting East Asian and World History
Appendix A: The Population of the Jiankang Empire
Appendix B: Migration
Appendix C: Geographic Distribution of Office-holding
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