Origins of the Chinese Nation - Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

Informationen zum Autor Nicolas Tackett earned his B.S. from Stanford University (1998) and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (2006). He has been at the University of California, Berkeley since 2009, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on a variety of topics, including 'Imperial China and the World', 'Precursors of Modern Nationalism', 'Frontier History', and 'History of Nationalism in Asia'. Tackett's first book, The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy (2014), received the American Historical Association's John Henry Breasted Prize in 2015. He was also the recipient of post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University and the Getty Research Institute, and of an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship. He has given talks on four continents and in three languages on topics related to Tang-Song China. Klappentext Nicolas Tackett explores the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). Zusammenfassung This ground-breaking study proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity - demonstrating that there has existed in world history a viable alternative to the modern system of nation-states. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Political Space: 1. Diplomacy and cosmopolitan society; 2. Military defense of the Northern Frontier; 3. Bilateral boundaries; Part II. Cultural Spaces: 4. The Chinese nation; 5. Mortuary cultures across the Chinese-Steppe divide; 6. Sinic space and Han Chinese; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Nicolas Tackett, Nicolas (University of California Tackett, Tackett Nicolas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781316647486
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64748-6
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, CE period up to c 1500, Archaeology, Diplomacy, Asian History, History and Archaeology, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE