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Northern Wei (386-534)

A New Form of Empire in East Asia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands of the Yellow River plains. Northern Wei was, in fact, the first of the so-called "conquest dynasties" complex states seen repeatedly in East Asian history in which Inner Asian peoples ruled parts of the Chinese world. An innovative contribution to East Asian and Chinese history of the medieval period, Northern Wei (386-534) combines received historical text and archaeological findings to examine the complex interactions between these originally distinct populations, and the way those interactions changed over time. Scott Pearce analyses traditions borrowed and adapted from the long-gone Han dynasty including government and taxation as well as the new cultural elements such as the use of armor for man and horse in the cavalry and the newly-invented stirrup. Further, this book discusses the fundamental change in the dynastic family, as empresses began to play an increasingly important role in the business of government. Though Northern Wei fell in the early sixth century, the nature of the state was thus fundamentally changed, in the Chinese world and East Asia as a whole; it had laid down a foundation from which a century later would emerge the world empire of Tang.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-07-27
Mått162 x 237 x 29 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in Early Empires
Antal sidor384
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197600399

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Acknowledgements AbbreviationsGenealogies Maps Prologue: Defining Our Arenas Section I: On Sources Chapter 1: The Emperor Taiwu and the Creation of History Chapter 2: History Writing and Its Discontents Section II: Origins Chapter 3: Growth from out Decay Chapter 4: Myths of Origin Section III: A Dynasty Takes Shape Chapter 5: The Interloper Chapter 6: Establishing a State Section IV: Creating an Empire Chapter 7: The Way of War Chapter 8: The World Shegui Entered Chapter 9: The World Shegui Created Chapter 10: Troubling Innovation Section V: Pingcheng as Center of a World Chapter 11: The Wei Army Chapter 12: The Wolf Lord Chapter 13: Hunting and Gathering in the Land of Dai Section VI: End Games Chapter 14: A Transitional Age Chapter 15: The Two Buddhas Chapter 16: To Luoyang Chapter 17: Downfall of the Theater State Summing Up; Looking Ahead Bibliography Glossary-Index

Scott Pearce is one of the foremost English-language scholars of the Northern Wei Empire. This wonderfully evocative book draws upon a lifetime of research, including wide-ranging and thought-provoking interpretations of comparative sources from other places and periods of world history. Pearce is especially gifted in his appreciation of the origins of the Taghbach steppe confederation, the creation of their own myth-history, and their slow transformation into a Sinitic-styled empire, which he frames as an attempt 'to describe, really repackage, a very different people, who had created a very different state.'