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Asia Major, Third Series 23.1, 2010
Routledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History, 2018
Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours, 2015
Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 2018
ISSN 2157-9679 (print) 2157-9687 (online) SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated ... more ISSN 2157-9679 (print) 2157-9687 (online) SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated to making available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor-in-chief actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including romanized modern standard Mandarin (MSM) and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of China with other peoples, challenging and creative studies on a wide variety of philological subjects will be entertained. This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations. Sino-Platonic Papers pref...
Frontiers of History in China, Sep 5, 2012
Early Medieval China, 2001
The Political Legacy of Wu in the Tenth-Century Southern Kingdoms, 2021
The Wuren 吳人 offer an unusually well-documented case study in non-Han alternatives of ethnogenesi... more The Wuren 吳人 offer an unusually well-documented case study in non-Han alternatives of ethnogenesis. The leadership of the sixth-century Central Plains empires regarded them as a distinctive ethnic group, akin to the Koguryans, the Rouran, and the Huren of Central Asia. The Jiankang regimes had by this time developed a distinctive political culture of their own, which was partially rooted in local vernacular traditions: most notably, the historical legacy of Sun Quan and the power of Jiang Ziwen, the empire’s tutelary deity. In 589 the Sui conquerors intentionally eradicated this tradition, along with the city of Jiankang (at modern Nanjing), and the Tang submerged it with universalizing rhetoric and active suppression. But it did not go away. Unofficial and local histories and shrines celebrated Sun Quan as the “Great Emperor of Wu” in defiance of Tang imperial practice, a legacy the Wu state in the late ninth/early tenth centuries was able to build upon. Even as the Wu court claimed the mantle of the Tang, it also relocated back to the old Wu imperial seat of power, nestled amongst the tombs of past southern emperors, and actively revived the cult of Jiang Ziwen and other early medieval heroes who had resisted northern rule. Their emphasis on division between the Wuren and the peoples of the Central Plains poses a challenge a singular definition of Sinitic political and ethnic identity.
A study of the development of biographical and geographical formats and themes in writing about l... more A study of the development of biographical and geographical formats and themes in writing about local places starting in the late Han period, and their contribution to the eventual rise of universal gazetteers by the Sui period.
Sino-Platonic Papers, 2014
This essay assesses the diversity of spoken vernacular languages in the medieval Jiankang Empire ... more This essay assesses the diversity of spoken vernacular languages in the medieval Jiankang Empire (Chinese southern dynasties, 420-579 CE) and the social and political role played by each. It concludes that there was no unified "Chinese" spoken language, and that linguistic diversity in fact played a significant role in generating both ethnic and status boundaries between peoples whom we would now call "Chinese."
Early Medieval China, 2001
Early Medieval China, 2003
A study of the development of biographical and geographical formats and themes in writing about l... more A study of the development of biographical and geographical formats and themes in writing about local places starting in the late Han period, and their contribution to the eventual rise of universal gazetteers by the Sui period.
Asia Major, Third Series 23.1, 2010
Routledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History, 2018
Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours, 2015
Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 2018
ISSN 2157-9679 (print) 2157-9687 (online) SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated ... more ISSN 2157-9679 (print) 2157-9687 (online) SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated to making available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor-in-chief actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including romanized modern standard Mandarin (MSM) and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of China with other peoples, challenging and creative studies on a wide variety of philological subjects will be entertained. This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations. Sino-Platonic Papers pref...
Frontiers of History in China, Sep 5, 2012
Early Medieval China, 2001
The Political Legacy of Wu in the Tenth-Century Southern Kingdoms, 2021
The Wuren 吳人 offer an unusually well-documented case study in non-Han alternatives of ethnogenesi... more The Wuren 吳人 offer an unusually well-documented case study in non-Han alternatives of ethnogenesis. The leadership of the sixth-century Central Plains empires regarded them as a distinctive ethnic group, akin to the Koguryans, the Rouran, and the Huren of Central Asia. The Jiankang regimes had by this time developed a distinctive political culture of their own, which was partially rooted in local vernacular traditions: most notably, the historical legacy of Sun Quan and the power of Jiang Ziwen, the empire’s tutelary deity. In 589 the Sui conquerors intentionally eradicated this tradition, along with the city of Jiankang (at modern Nanjing), and the Tang submerged it with universalizing rhetoric and active suppression. But it did not go away. Unofficial and local histories and shrines celebrated Sun Quan as the “Great Emperor of Wu” in defiance of Tang imperial practice, a legacy the Wu state in the late ninth/early tenth centuries was able to build upon. Even as the Wu court claimed the mantle of the Tang, it also relocated back to the old Wu imperial seat of power, nestled amongst the tombs of past southern emperors, and actively revived the cult of Jiang Ziwen and other early medieval heroes who had resisted northern rule. Their emphasis on division between the Wuren and the peoples of the Central Plains poses a challenge a singular definition of Sinitic political and ethnic identity.
A study of the development of biographical and geographical formats and themes in writing about l... more A study of the development of biographical and geographical formats and themes in writing about local places starting in the late Han period, and their contribution to the eventual rise of universal gazetteers by the Sui period.
Sino-Platonic Papers, 2014
This essay assesses the diversity of spoken vernacular languages in the medieval Jiankang Empire ... more This essay assesses the diversity of spoken vernacular languages in the medieval Jiankang Empire (Chinese southern dynasties, 420-579 CE) and the social and political role played by each. It concludes that there was no unified "Chinese" spoken language, and that linguistic diversity in fact played a significant role in generating both ethnic and status boundaries between peoples whom we would now call "Chinese."
Early Medieval China, 2001
Early Medieval China, 2003
A study of the development of biographical and geographical formats and themes in writing about l... more A study of the development of biographical and geographical formats and themes in writing about local places starting in the late Han period, and their contribution to the eventual rise of universal gazetteers by the Sui period.