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9780190937546

The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History

by Chittick, Andrew
  • ISBN13:

    9780190937546

  • ISBN10:

    0190937548

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9780190937560

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2020-03-27
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Andrew Chittick is the E. Leslie Peter Professor of East Asian Humanities and History at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL. A native of California, he received his PhD in History from the University of Michigan in 1997. He is the author of Patronage and Community in Medieval China: The Xiangyang Garrison, 400-600 CE (SUNY Press, 2010). He is currently working on maritime interchanges between Sino-Southeast Asia and the Malay world in the first millennium CE.

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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