The Way of the Barbarians (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
242
Utgivningsdatum
2019-10-14
Förlag
University of Washington Press
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0 illustrations
Dimensioner
226 x 152 x 23 mm
Vikt
409 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780295746036

The Way of the Barbarians

Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China

av Shao-Yun Yang
Häftad,  Engelska, 2019-10-14
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Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (8001127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, barbarism, were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority. The key issues at stake concerned the acceptability of intellectual pluralism in a Chinese society and the importance of Confucian moral values to the integrity and continuity of the Chinese state. Through close reading of the contexts and changing geopolitical realities in which new interpretations of identity emerged, this intellectual history engages with ongoing debates over relevance of the concepts of culture, nation, and ethnicity to premodern China.
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Shao-yun Yang is assistant professor of East Asian history at Denison University.

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