| Description |
1 online resource (316 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia Ser |
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Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Historical periods -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Theoretical frameworks: Networks, world-systems, borderlands -- Scholarly context: New approaches to southern East Asia -- Rise and fall of the Qin Empire: The triumph and tragedy unnoticed? -- Two perspectives on the Qin Empire -- Excavated documents and their context -- Outline of content -- 2. Before the empire: The Middle Yangzi interaction space -- Geographical outline |
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Emergence of the Middle Yangzi interaction space -- From interaction space to territorial state -- Concluding remarks: Interaction, consolidation, and expansion -- 3. Qin's southward expansion in the Warring States period -- An unexpected strategic turn? -- From connectivity to conquest -- Drive to the south: Qin arrives on the Middle Yangzi -- Fighting Chu (mid-fourth century to 221 BCE) -- Incorporating the conquered territories north of Yangzi -- Concluding remarks: A long-term perspective on empire-building -- 4. The Qin Empire in the south: Territoriality, organization, challenges |
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Lands old and new: Qin imperial territoriality -- A dynamic frontier in the South -- Administrative organization south of the Middle Yangzi -- Challenges from within: Insurgency, unrest, and control over populations -- Concluding remarks: A house divided against itself? -- 5. Local administration in the south -- The You River valley on the eve of the Qin conquest -- Territorial administration in Qianling County -- Settlements and communities -- Forced migrations and unfree population -- Government spending and monetization -- Concluding remarks: The local dimension of state power |
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6. Resources and resource exploitation -- Agricultural resources -- Metals -- Plants, animals, and wildlife products -- Concluding remarks: The stuff of the empire -- 7. Southern borderlands after the Qin -- After the fall: The East Asian political space in the early second century BCE -- The Han reconquest of the south -- Maturation of the imperial network: Demographic, political, and economic geography of the early Sinitic empire in southern East Asia -- Concluding remarks: The imperial network and the fluctuating contours of the Sinitic empire in the South |
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8. Epilogue: Networks, empires, world-systems: Southern East Asia and the dynamics of early Sinitic empire -- Formation of the East Asian world-system: From imperial network to a world-system? -- Beyond the frontier: the transformation of semi-periphery in southern East Asia and the dynamics of the Sinitic world-system -- Appendix 1: Origins of individuals in Qianling County -- Appendix 2: Grain ration records in Qianling County -- Appendix 3: Increase in the registered populationof the southern commanderies between 2 CE and 156 CE -- Glossary of Chinese terms -- References -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- History
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Imperialism
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Territorial expansion
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Territorial expansion -- History
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000474831 |
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1000474836 |
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