Research Catalog

Title

The imperial network in ancient China : the foundation of Sinitic empire in southern East Asia / Maxim Korolkov.

Author

Korolʹkov, M. V. (Maksim Vladimirovich)

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Description

xv, 300 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca. 400 BCE-200 CE as a network-based process, showing how the geography of early interregional contacts south of the Yangzi River informed the directions of Sinitic state expansion. Drawing from an extensive collection of sources including transmitted textual records, archaeological evidence, excavated legal manuscripts, and archival documents from Liye, this book demonstrates the breadth of human and material resources available to the empire builders of an early imperial network throughout southern East Asia - from institutions and infrastructures, to the relationships that facilitated circulation. This network is shown to have been essential to the consolidation of Sinitic imperial rule in the sub-tropical zone south of the Yangzi against formidable environmental, epidemiological, and logistical odds. This is also the first study to explore how the interplay between an imperial network and alternative frameworks of long-distance interaction in ancient East Asia shaped the political-economic trajectory of the Sinitic world and its involvement in Eurasian globalization. Contributing to debates around imperial state formation, the applicability of world-system models and the comparative study of empires, The Imperial Network in Ancient China will be of significant interest to students and scholars of East Asian studies, archaeology and history"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in the early history of Asia

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in the early history of Asia.

Subject

• 221 B.C.-960 A.D
• Imperialism > History
• Imperialism
• Politics and government
• Qin Dynasty (China)
• Territorial expansion
• China, Southeast > History
• China, Southeast > Politics and government
• China > Territorial expansion > History
• China > Politics and government > 221 B.C.-220 A.D
• China > History > 221 B.C.-960 A.D
• China > History > Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C
• China
• Southeast China

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

List of illustrations -- Historical periods -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Before the empire: the middle Yangzi interaction space -- Chapter 3. Qin's southward expansion -- Chapter 4. The Qin empire in the south: territoriality, organization, challenges -- Chapter 5. Local administration in the south -- Chapter 6. Resources and resource exploitation -- Chapter 7. Southern borderlands after the Qin -- Epilogue: Networks, empires, world-systems: southern East Asia and the dynamics of early Sinitic empire -- Appendix 1. Origins of individuals in Qianling County -- Appendix 2. Grain ration records in Qianling County -- Appendix 3. Increase in the registered population of the southern commanderies between 2 CE and 156 CE -- Glossary of Chinese terms -- Bibliography.

Call Number

JFE 21-8958

ISBN

• 9780367654283
• 0367654288
• 9780367654290
• 0367654296

LCCN

2021030163

OCLC

1260169919

Author

Korolʹkov, M. V. (Maksim Vladimirovich), author.

Title

The imperial network in ancient China : the foundation of Sinitic empire in southern East Asia / Maxim Korolkov.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in the early history of Asia

Routledge studies in the early history of Asia.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

221 B.C.-960 A.D.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8958