TOC Journal of Chinese History, Special Issue on 'The State and Migration in Chinese History' -- Volume 5 - Issue 2 - July 2021

Journal of Chinese History, Special Issue on 'The State and Migration in Chinese History' -- Volume 5 - Issue 2 - July 2021

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Special issue articles

Introduction

“THE STATE and MIGRATION IN CHINESE HISTORY”

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

Early Imperial and Early Medieval China

Coerced Migration and Resettlement in the Qin Imperial Expansion

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

State-Induced Migration and the Creation of State Spaces in Early Chinese Empires: Perspectives from History and Archaeology

Maxim Korolkov, Anke Hein

War Captives, Left-Behind Wives, and Buddhist Nuns: Female Migrants in Early Medieval China (4th–6th Century CE)

Wen-Yi Huang

Late Imperial China

Rethinking Qing Manchuria's Prohibition Policies

Jonathan Schlesinger

Where Diasporas Met: Hunanese, Cantonese, and the State in Late-Qing Guangxi

Steven B. Miles

Modern China

Together in the Same Boat: Exiled Nationalist State and Chinese Civil War Exiles in 1950s Taiwan

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang

Transform the Land, Train the Youth: Water and Soil Conservation Teams and State-Induced Migration in mid-1960s China

Micah S. Muscolino

Reluctant and Illegal Migrants in Mao's China: Civil Defense Evacuation in the Tianjin Region, 1969–1980

Jeremy Brown

中国南北朝寒門寒人研究

Author:

榎本　あゆち (Enomoto Ayuchi)

Publication date:

October 22, 2020

Publisher:

汲古書院

Table of Contents:

序　文
第一編　南朝寒門寒人研究
第一章　梁末陳初の諸集団について
　――陳覇先軍団を中心として――
　一　陳覇先集団の形成過程　　　　
　二　広州の陳覇先グループ　　　
　三　嶺南地方と江南将帥層
　四　陳覇先グループと嶺南・南川の土豪
　五　梁末陳初の諸集団　　　　　　
　六　南朝後期の任侠的結合関係
第二章　東晉・南朝の民衆運動と水上交通
　――南康の営民鵃舟了船の越人――
　一　六朝期の南康郡について　　　
　二　東晉末期盧循北上期の南康と原住種族、及び水上交通者
　　　〔南康の木客／南康の営民〕
　三　梁末陳初の南康と水上交通者
　　　〔梁末南康における在地勢力と嶺南洗氏／南康周辺地域の水上交通者
　　　　――特に鵃舟了船の越人について――〕
　四　劉宋期から梁末にいたる南康について
第三章　劉孝標をめぐる人々――南朝政治史上の平原劉氏――
　一　劉孝標の出生と北魏における生活
　二　南朝への帰還と南斉時代
　　　〔孝標と崔慰祖／南斉武帝死後の政治史と孝標〕
　三　梁代の劉孝標と平原劉氏
　　　〔梁天監年間の孝標の活動とその記録をめぐる問題
　　　――所謂錦被事件　を中心として――／劉杏兄弟と孝標
　　　――類書編纂の系譜に関連して――〕
　おわりに――残された課題
第四章　南朝貴族と軍事
　――南斉の雍州刺史王奐を中心として――
　一　南朝貴族と中央・地方軍　　
　二　王奐の出自と劉宋期の経歴
　三　南斉期の王奐
　　　〔王奐と南蛮府・江州軍府の廃止／王奐の領軍将軍就官と護軍将軍人事
　　　／雍州刺史就任をめぐって／反乱〕
　おわりに――残された課題

第二編　南北朝中書舎人研究
第五章　梁の中書舎人と南朝賢才主義
　一　梁代中書舎人と賢才主義
　　　〔初期（天監年間）の中書舎人／中期（普通年間）以降の中書舎人／
　　　　礼学と政治世界〕
　二　梁代中書舎人の変容とその諸要因
　　　〔舎人の兼官について／賢才主義と門閥貴族／貨幣経済と舎人〕
　おわりに――南朝賢才主義の行方――
第六章　北魏後期・東魏の中書舎人について
　一　南北朝の中書舎人と賢才主義および兼官制　　
　二　北魏孝文・宣武帝期の中書舎人
　三　孝明帝期の中書舎人　　　　　　　　　　　　
　四　孝荘帝期・東魏の中書舎人
　おわりに――北魏後期・東魏の舎人と兼官制
第七章　北斉の中書舎人について
　――顔之推、そのタクチクスの周辺――
　一　文宣帝期の中書舎人
　　　〔軍務官としての舎人／二重国都・尚書制と舎人〕
　二　北斉後期の中書舎人
　　　〔軍務官と北斉後期政治史／後期舎人達〕
第八章　西魏末・北周の御正について
　一　西魏末から北周明帝期まで
　二　武帝即位から字文護の死まで
　三　武帝親政期
　四　宣帝期

第三編　南朝帰降北人研究
第九章　帰降北人と南朝社会
　――梁の将軍蘭欽の出自を手がかりに――
　一　北族蘭氏
　　　〔蘭欽の事蹟とその伝について／五胡十六国期の蘭氏
　　　／北魏期の蘭氏／北魏末以降の蘭氏〕
　二　北魏南辺城民
　　　〔南辺城民の構成要素とその境遇
　　　／南北両王朝国境地帯における貨幣流通経済の影響〕
第十章　南斉の柔然遣使　王洪範について
　――南朝政治史における三斉豪族と帰降北人――
　一　王洪範の遣使をめぐる国際情勢　　　　　　　
　二　王洪範の出身と遣使までの経歴
　三　帰朝後の王洪範と南斉軍事史　
　　　〔永明期――梁州と三斉豪族――／武帝の死から明帝即位まで
　　――明帝と三斉豪族――／建武年間――北魏との戦いと王洪範の死――〕
第十一章　侯景の乱前史
　――寿春・帰降北人・蛮・在地豪族をめぐって――
　一　東晉から南斉にかけての寿春　　　
　二　北魏の寿春占領とその影響――在地豪族と南北境界線上の蛮――
　三　北魏の寿春支配　　　　
　四　梁軍の寿春攻撃――北魏南辺軍鎮の動揺と帰降北人・蛮の南叛――
　五　梁の寿春奪還――淮水堰建設と帰降北人王足――
　六　侯景と寿春――梁王朝と在地社会――
　おわりに――武帝と帰降北人、および中原の夢――

第四編　南朝関連史料研究
第十二章　姚察・姚思廉の「梁書」編纂について
　――臨川王宏伝を中心として――
　一　『梁書』をめぐる趙翼と朱希祖の見解　　　　
　二　『梁書』と『南史』の臨川王宏伝
　三　臨川王宏の官歴についての『梁書』の記載　　
　四　呉興武康の姚氏と臨川王家
第十三章　『南史』の説話的要素について
　――梁諸王伝を手がかりとして――
　一　『南史』と『梁書』の梁諸王伝
　　　〔両書の比較／『南史』梁諸王伝中の小説的要素〕
　二　北朝後期士大夫社会における談論の風潮
　　　〔『冤魂志』中の説話「蕭続」について／『談藪』と旧北斉系士人社会〕
第十四章　再び『南史』の説話的要素について
　――蕭順之の死に関する記事を手がかりとして――
　一　蕭鸞擁立をめぐる『南史』の記述について　　　
　二　南斉王室における同族対立について
　三　『南史』中の蕭衍像　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　四　旧北斉系士人と李延寿

あとがき――「越境者の肖像」によせて――

[Dissertation] Empire-Building and Market-Making at the Qin Frontier: Imperial Expansion and Economic Change, 221–207 BCE

Author:
Korolkov, Maxim

Submitted:
2020

School:
Columbia University

Abstract:
This dissertation explores the relationship between empire-building and economic change during the formative process of the Qin Empire. It employs transmitted and excavated textual materials as well as archaeological evidence to reconstruct institutions and practices of surplus extraction and economic management and their evolution during the period of Qin’s expansion culminating in the emergence of the first centralized bureaucratic empire in continental East Asia. I argue that the commercial expansion and the formation of markets for land, labor, and commodities during China’s early imperial period (221 BCE – 220 CE) can only be understood by considering their origins in the distributive command economy of the late Warring States and imperial Qin. The study focuses on the southern frontier zone of the empire, which is exceptionally well documented in the official and private documents excavated from the Qin and Han sites along the Middle Yangzi and its tributaries.

Chapter One “Introduction” outlines historiographical approaches to the study of the relationship between empire-building and economic change, particularly the impact of imperial conquest and extraction on commercial growth. It addresses the importance of frontiers as the sites of economic innovation and change in the ancient empires. I discuss the importance of the recent archaeological discovery of legal and administrative manuscripts from the Warring States (453–221 BCE), Qin (221–206 BCE), and Han (202 BCE – 220 CE) eras for the study of the administrative and economic organization in the early empires. The introduction also outlines the new perspectives on Qin empire-building and economic change made possible by the excavated documentary evidence.

Chapter Two “Strategies of conquest and resource extraction in the state and empire of Qin, mid-fourth to late third century BCE” explores the geographical and logistical rationales for the campaigns that brought the Qin armies to the Middle Yangzi and paved the way for further advance to the south of the river. I argue that the Qin developed its fiscal institutions as solutions to the problems of military supply and control over the conquered territories. This system of surplus extraction proved efficient in financing warfare and ensuring the central government’s control over its local agents. However, it faced severe challenges as its operational costs soared in the process of territorial expansion, while the redistributive effects of the fiscal system pitted the principal against the agents. The successes and failings of the Qin model of surplus extraction, and its revision during the subsequent Western Han period profoundly influenced the approaches to economic and territorial management throughout China’s imperial history.

Chapter Three “Formation of the imperial frontier: from interaction zone to centralized administration” focuses on the background and the immediate aftermath of the Qin conquest of lands to the south of Middle Yangzi, roughly coinciding with the modern province of Hunan and the southern part of Hubei Province. The chapter examines the longue durée of economic and political integration along the Middle Yangzi from the Late Neolithic period (third millennium BCE) to the dawn of the imperial era. This analysis sheds new light on the background of Qin imperial expansion in this region and the strategies of the “reconstruction of the South” adopted by the Qin emperors and the succeeding Han Empire. I conclude the chapter with detailed analysis of administrative organization and economic management in the Qin county of Qianling in present-day Western Hunan, whose archive was partly recovered during the archaeological excavation of the remains of the Qin town at Liye.

Chapter Four “Between command and market: the economy of convict labor” studies the enormous system of unfree labor that incorporated a considerable portion of the Qin Empire’s population and was the key instrument of the Qin command economy. The chapter offers a comparative perspective on the historical regimes of forced labor, which allows identification of economic rationales for such systems and the organizational challenges they faced. It proceeds with an analysis of the legal foundations of penal labor in Qin and the characteristics of the main groups of forced laborers before exploring the organization of the unfree labor economy in Qianling County where detailed data is available concerning the size of the convict population, their economic roles, and the management of their labor. The chapter then discusses changes in the Qin system of unfree labor, its decline after the fall of the Qin Empire, and its impact on the formation of markets for labor in early imperial China.

Chapter Five “Conquering distance: transferring goods and people in the Qin Empire” discusses the long-distance transfers of resources, goods, and people. As many other imperial states, the Qin sought to control the physical mobility of its subjects and resources by directing them into desirable channels and restricting unwanted moves. Excavated texts shed light on the previously unknown aspects of the integration of economic and humanitarian space within the empire. Although the imperial connectivity remained fragile and suffered setbacks when the physical and intellectual infrastructures of communication shrank or collapsed with the decline and fall of centralized power, the shared sphere of geographic mobility was essential for the formation of the imperial economy, society, and culture. It tended to regenerate itself after the periods of contraction or disruption and should therefore be considered an important factor in the resilience of centripetal trends in China’s political history.

Chapter Six “The state and the private economy” utilizes the materials from Qianling archive to study the relationship between the state and private economies. Although the ideologists of state-strengthening reforms in mid-fourth century BCE Qin cherished the idea that the latter should be completely subsumed under governmental dirigisme, by the times of the Qin Empire, officials recognized the autonomy of private markets and their own inability to substitute for the latter with distributive schemes. In its engagement with private economic actors, the government was guided by considerations of taxation and resource procurement; cost-reduction in the state economy; and maintenance of public order through the delineation of rights and obligations. Transformation of the state economy, its increasing exposure to private markets, and the expansion of the latter, often caused by the state demand for materials and manpower, were powerfully facilitated by the monetization of the frontier region attested in the textual and archaeological evidence.

Chapter Seven “Conclusion” summarizes the mutually constitutive relationships between empire-building and economic change in the Qin Empire; traces the development of economic and institutional changes, which become observable during the Qin imperial period, in the subsequent Han era; and formulates some general patterns of the state-economy relationship that may be of use in the comparative study of imperial economic systems.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Strategies of conquest and resource extraction in the state and empire of Qin, mid-fourth to late third century BCE
Chapter 3 : Formation of the imperial frontier: from interaction zone to centralized
   administration
Chapter 4 : Between command and market: the economy of convict labor
Chapter 5 : Conquering distance: transferring goods and people in the Qin Empire
Chapter 6 : The state and the private economy
Chapter 7 : Conclusion

The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History

Author:
Andrew Chittick

Publication date:
April 2020

Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Abstract:
This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist history, and proposes a new framework and terminology for writing about medieval East Asia. The book pays particular attention to the problem of ethnic identification, rejecting the idea of "ethnic Chinese," and delineating several other, more useful ethnographic categories, using case studies in agriculture/foodways and vernacular languages. The most important, the Wuren of the lower Yangzi region, were believed to be inherently different from the peoples of the Central Plains, and the rest of the book addresses the extent of their ethnogenesis in the medieval era. It assesses the political culture of the Jiankang Empire, emphasizing military strategy, institutional cultures, and political economy, showing how it differed from Central Plains-based empires, while having significant similarities to Southeast Asian regimes. It then explores how the Jiankang monarchs deployed three distinct repertoires of political legitimation (vernacular, Sinitic universalist, and Buddhist), arguing that the Sinitic repertoire was largely eclipsed in the sixth century, rendering the regime yet more similar to neighboring South Seas states. The conclusion points out how the research re-orients our understanding of acculturation and ethnic identification in medieval East Asia, generates new insights into the Tang-Song transition period, and offers new avenues of comparison with Southeast Asian and medieval European history

Table of Contents:
Preface
1 Introduction: The Invisible Empire
Section One: Proto-Ethnic Identities
2 The Discourse of Ethnicity
3 Agriculture and Foodways
4 Vernacular Languages
Section Two: Political Culture
5 Marking Territory: The Militarization of the Huai Frontier
6 Making Hierarchy: Garrison, Court, and the Structure of Jiankang Politics
7 Managing Prosperity: The Political Economy of a Commercial Empire
Section Three: Repertoires of Legitimation
8 The Vernacular Repertoire
9 The Sinitic Repertoire
10 The Buddhist Repertoire: The Era of Pluralist Patronage
11 The Buddhist Repertoire: Jiankang as Theater State
12 Conclusion: Re-Orienting East Asian and World History
Appendix A: The Population of the Jiankang Empire
Appendix B: Migration
Appendix C: Geographic Distribution of Office-holding

The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750–1400

Author: 
John W. Chaffee

Publication date:
November 2018

Publisher:
Cambridge University Press

Abstract:
In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China, John W. Chaffee uncovers 700 years of history, from the eighth century, when Muslim communities first established themselves in southeastern China, through the fourteenth century, when trade all but ceased. These were extraordinary and tumultuous times. Under the Song and the Mongols, the Muslim diaspora in China flourished as legal and economic ties were formalized. At other times the Muslim community suffered hostility and persecution. Chaffee shows how the policies of successive dynastic regimes in China combined with geopolitical developments across maritime Asia to affect the fortunes of Muslim communities. He explores social and cultural exchanges, and how connections were maintained through faith and a common acceptance of Muslim law. This ground breaking contribution to the history of Asia, the early Islamic world, and to maritime history explores the networks that helped to shape the pre-modern world.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Merchants of an imperial trade
2. The reorientation of trade
3. The maturation of merchant communities
4. Mongols and the concentration of merchant power
5. Endings and continuities

Workshop on Migration and Border-crossing in Early Medieval China

Co-organizers: 

Wen-Yi Huang & Xiaofei Tian

Date:

May 23, 2019

Location: 

The Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Harvard University

Program

9:30-9:40         Opening Remarks

Panel I. Going South

9:40-10:40

Evan Nicoll-Johnson (University of Alberta), “Guo Pu (276-324) the Wanderer: Magic and Migration in the Jin Dynasty”

Lu Kou (Williams College), “Detainees and Letters to Request Release in Early Medieval China”

Panel II. The Mobility of Texts and Images

10:40-11:40

Keith N. Knapp (The Citadel), “Cultural Baggage: The Transmission and Spread of Accounts of Filial Offspring during the Northern and Southern Dynasties”

Fan Zhang (NYU-Shanghai), “Between Hexi and Pingcheng: Migration of Image, Style, and People”

11:40-1:00        Lunch [Workshop Participants Only]

Panel III. Looking Back and Around

1:00-2:00

Jack W. Chen (University of Virginia), “Looking Back across the River: Nostalgia as Migrancy in the Shishuo xinyu”

Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University), “The Worlds on the Edge between Darkness and Light: Fifth-century ‘Supernatural’ Stories of a Migrant Community”

Panel IV. Rootedness, Relocation, and Identity

2:00-3:00

Andrew Chittick (Eckerd College), “Borderlands and Migration to North and South: A Study of the Qing-Qi Region in the Fifth Century CE”

Wen-Yi Huang (Harvard University), “How to Name People on the Move: A Case Study of the Northern Wei”

3:00-3:15         Coffee Break

Panel V. Moving Monks and Merchants

3:15-4:15

James Robson (Harvard University), “Monks, Movement, and Migration: A Preliminary Assessment of the Large-Scale Movement of Buddhist Monks in Early Medieval China”

Jin Xu (Vassar College), “Following in the Footsteps of Siddhartha: Shi Jun Sarcophagus and the Picturing of an Allegorical Biography”

4:15-4:45         General Discussion and Concluding Remarks

6:30                 Dinner for Workshop Participants

＊For more details, please visit our website:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/2019emcmigration/home-0

[Dissertation] Cultural Encounters: Ethnic Complexity and Material Expression in Fifth-Century Pingcheng, China

Author:
ZHANG, Fan 張帆

School:
New York University

Defended:
2018

Abstract:

My dissertation focuses on art and material culture produced in the city of Pingcheng, the capital of the Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE) during the fifth century. A city of immigrants from diverse social, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, Pingcheng was an unusually fertile land for vigorous cultural exchanges. Through investigation into material remains, from both funerary and religious contexts, and textual sources, both transmitted and excavated, my research delineate multiple ethnicity, artistic innovation, and cross-cultural interactions of Pingcheng. I adopt an interdisciplinary approach that combines art history, archaeology, and history to examine how individuals articulate their identities in a multiethnic society via various visual and material forms. Built on top of a set comprehensive archaeological data, this project highlights three tombs for in-depth case studies, including funerary portraits that display identities of the deceased, innovative burial furniture that crosses ethnic boundaries and showcases Pingcheng’s syncretism, and exotic silverwares that exemplify the intensive cultural exchange between East and Central Asia.

My dissertation challenges the Sino-centric perspective and Han/non-Han binary division. By investigating artistic productions associated with individuals, I explore the mediating role art plays in the social network and the process of identity articulation. My research situates Northern Wei art in a trans-cultural context of Eurasia by tracking movements of objects and migration of people. My emphasis on material culture also expands the scope of art historical study by including less-studied genres and experimenting with a trans-medium approach to conceptualize funerary art.

Early Korea-Japan Interactions

Editors:
Mark E. Byington, Ken'ichi Sasaki, and Martin T. Bale

Publication date:
August 2018

Publisher:
University of Hawai’i Press

Abstract:

The present volume presents seven studies of interactions between societies and polities on the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago from an archaeological perspective. The time periods reflected in these studies range from the Mumun and Yayoi societies of the first millennium B.C. to the final consolidation of early states in the seventh century A.D. These studies demonstrate that the archaeological approach yields views of early Korea-Japan interactions that are in many ways richer than those based on written records, often calling for major revisions of previous understandings of the early history of this region.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Mark E. Byington, Ken'ichi Sasaki, and Martin T. Bale

"Bronze mirrors and Exchange Between Southern Korea and Kyushu" by
Lee Chungkyu

"Interaction Between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Archipelago
During the Yayoi Period" by Iwanaga Shozo

"Kaya, Silla, and Wa: Changing Relationships and Their Historical
Backgrounds" by Park Cheun Soo

"Interactions Between Paekche and Wa in the Third to Sixth Centuries A.D.
Based on Patterns of Trade and Exchange" by Woo Jae-Pyoung

"Ancient Kibi, Western Japan, and the Korean Peninsula" by Kameda
Shuichi

"Archaeological Investigations at the Omuro Cairn Cluster in the Central
Highlands of Japan: With Reference to Korean Immigrants in the Fifth and
Sixth Centuries A.D. " by Sasaki Kenichi

"Japan-Korea Interaction Viewed from Eastern Japan" by Habuta
Yoshiyuki

北朝社会における南朝文化の受容: 外交使節と亡命者の影響

Author:
堀内淳一 (HORIUCHI Junichi)

Publisher:
東方書店

Publication date:
March, 2018

Table of Contents:

序　 章　南北朝交流史の問題と展開
　一　問題意識と課題の設定
　二　北朝と南朝の間の交流に関する研究史
　三　本書の構成

第一章　南北朝間の使節よりみた「文化」の多様性
　はじめに
　一　使者の選定とその背景
　二　使節による文化交流の具体的事例
　三　使者の体現する「文化」の範囲
　四　北朝における使者の資質
　おわりに

第二章　南北朝間の外交使節と経済交流――馬と柑橘――
　はじめに
　一　遣使と来聘
　二　使節の私的な交流
　三　軍事力と正統性の交換
　おわりに

第三章　北朝の使者の帰国後
　はじめに
　一　北魏の南朝遣使と制度改革
　二　魏斉革命と南朝への使者
　三　隋の対陳使者と陳の平定
　おわりに

第四章　府佐属僚からみた北魏の亡命氏族
　はじめに
　一　劉昶・王肅の府佐の構成
　二　亡命者の子孫の府主について
　三　北魏貴族社会と亡命者
　おわりに

第五章　司馬氏の帰郷
　はじめに
　一　司馬氏の北帰について
　二　北魏前期における司馬氏
　三　司馬氏を騙るものたち
　四　華北名族としての司馬氏
　おわりに

第六章　北魏宗室の亡命と帰還
　はじめに
　一　北魏宗室の亡命の理由と経緯
　二　梁における北魏宗室の待遇と帰国
　三　北魏宗室以外の貴族の亡命と帰還
　おわりに

補　 論　『陳書』の編纂過程と隋陳関係記事
　はじめに
　一　『陳書』における隋陳外交記事の欠落
　二　『陳書』の成書と流伝
　三　『陳書』阮卓伝にみる隋陳関係
　おわりに

終　 章　北朝貴族の目に映る南朝――「島夷」から「万国安和」へ

Eurasian Empires in Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe

Editors:
Nicola Di Cosmo & Michael Maas

Publisher:
Cambridge University Press

Publication Date:
January 2018

Abstract:

Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced significant interactions and movements that changed their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational era, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese monarchs were mutually aware of court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies. It was a time of greater circulation of ideas as well as material goods. This volume provides a conceptual frame for locating these developments in the same space and time. Without arguing for uniformity, it illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Historical Thresholds:

1. How the steppes became Byzantine: Rome and the Eurasian Nomads in historical perspective 
Michael Maas

2. The relations between China and the steppe from the Xiongnu to the Türk Empire 
Nicola Di Cosmo

3. Sasanian Iran and the projection of power in Late Antique Eurasia: competing cosmologies and topographies of power 
Matthew P. Canepa

4. Trade and exchanges along the silk and steppe routes in Late Antique Eurasia 
Richard Lim

5. Sogdian merchants and Sogdian culture on the silk road 
Rong Xinjiang 榮新江

6. 'Charismatic' goods: commerce, diplomacy, and cultural contacts along the silk road in Late Antiquity 
Peter Brown

7. The synthesis of the Tang Dynasty: the culmination of China's contacts and communication with Eurasia 
Valerie Hansen

8. Central Asia in the Late Roman mental map, second to sixth centuries 
Giusto Traina

Part II. Movements, Contacts, and Exchanges:

9. Genetic history and migrations in Western Eurasia 
Patrick Geary

10. Northern invaders: migration and conquest as scholarly topos in Eurasian history 
Michael Kulikowski

11. Chinese and inner Asian perspectives on the history of the Northern dynasties (386–589 CE) in Chinese historiography 
Luo Xin 羅新

12. Xiongnu and Huns: archaeological perspectives on a centuries-old debate about identity and migration 
Ursula Brosseder

13. Ethnicity and empire in the Western Eurasian Steppes 
Walter Pohl

14. The languages of Christianity on the silk roads and the transmission of Mediterranean culture into central Asia 
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

15. The spread of Buddhist culture to China between the third and seventh century 
Max Deeg

16. The circulation of astrological lore and its political use between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, and the Türks 
Frantz Grenet

17. Luminous markers: pearls and royal authority in Late Antique Iran and Eurasia 
Joel Walker

Part III. Empires, Diplomacy, and Frontiers:

18. Byzantium's Eurasian policy in the age of the Türk Empire 
Mark Whittow

19. Sasanian Iran and its northeastern frontier: offense, defense, and diplomatic 
Daniel T. Potts

20. Infrastructures of legitimacy in inner Asia: the Early Türk Empires 
Michael R. Drompp

21. The stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia 
Peter B. Golden

22. Aspects of elite representation among the sixth- to seventh-century Türks 
Sören Stark

23. Patterns of Roman diplomacy with Iran and the steppe peoples 
Ekaterina Nechaeva

24. Collapse of a Eurasian hybrid: the case of the Northern Wei
Andrew Eisenberg

25. Ideological interweaving in Eastern Eurasia: simultaneous kingship and dynastic competition 
Jonathan Karam Skaff

26. Followers and leaders in northeastern Eurasia, ca. seventh to tenth centuries
Naomi Standen

Epilogue 
Averil Cameron.

[Dissertation] Negotiating Boundaries: Cross-Border Migrants in Early Medieval China

Author:
Wen-Yi Huang

School:
McGill University

Defended:
2017

Abstract:

      This dissertation is the first full-length study of cross-border migrants in early medieval China. Its focus is on the nearly four hundred southern migrants, who moved, as war captives or as asylum seekers, to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from the three successive southern states of Song (420-479 CE), Qi (479-502 CE), and Liang (502-557 CE). It provides a bottom-up approach to early medieval interstate politics, and adds a human dimension to it.  It also offers an historical perspective on contemporary issues on migration and integration.
      Scholars have long recognized the four hundred years between the Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and Tang dynasties (618-916 CE) as an era of great migrations, migrations that transformed the political and cultural landscapes of southern and northern China. In this multi-power period, large-scale migrations, internal or external, occurred most frequently under the watch of the Northern Wei regime, and the Northern Wei government played an active role in facilitating and controlling migration. Accordingly, primary sources on displaced persons, especially southern migrants, who went to Northern Wei, are relatively abundant, which give an up-close picture of a group of people long neglected in Chinese history.
      My thesis employs a wide variety of primary sources. It includes, besides received textual records (official and unofficial histories, geographical texts, Buddhist hagiographies, anecdotes, and legal texts), also excavated funerary inscriptions, and archaeological materials. Theoretically grounded, it draws inspiration from literature on boundary work theory in other parts of the world to examine the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play between southern migrants and the Northern Wei government, between southern migrants and Northern Wei elites, and within the communities of southern migrants. 
      This project consists of four chapters. The first chapter, “People on the Move,” presents an overview of the cross-border migrants under study. It examines different patterns of side-changing and stresses the diversity among cross-border migrants. The remainder of the dissertation is a social history of cross-border migrants. 
      Chapter 2, “State and Cross-Border Migrants,” centers on the physical side of boundary work by looking into Northern Wei policies to control migration, including the bureaucratic terminology on border crossers, the identity verification process of migrants, and the rewards and punishments foreseen and doled out.
      Chapter 3, “Integration of Cross-Border Migrants,” investigates the extent to which cross-border migrants were integrated into the host society. It first analyzes how the Northern Wei elites erected boundaries between themselves and newcomers, particularly by means of food and language. It then discusses southern migrants’ varying survival strategies, ranging from the quotidian act of eating northern foods to long-term tactics of marriage alliances with northern leading families, recreating their local bases in the north, and utilizing migrant networks.
      The fourth chapter, “Those Who Were Left Behind,” explores the negative consequences of cross-border migration on the migrants’ families left behind in the south, including the difficulties of ransoming migrants, the problems of repatriating migrants’ remains for burial, and the inheritance issues caused by the double marriage of their husband or father at both sides of the border.

Über den Alltag hinaus: Festschrift für Thomas O. Höllmann zum 65. Geburtstag

Editors:
Shing Müller and Armin Selbitschka

Publishing Date:
25.10.2017

Publisher:
Harrassowitz Verlag

Abstract:

In 21 Beiträgen ehren Schüler und Weggefährten aus München, Münster, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Cambridge und Oxford (GB), Los Angeles (CA), Tempe (AZ), Beijing und Shanghai den international renommierten Sinologen und nunmehr Präsidenten der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Thomas O. Höllmann anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags. 

Höllmanns vielseitigen Forschungsinteressen Rechnung tragend vereint die Festschrift Untersuchungen aus den Bereichen Archäologie, Geschichte, Kunst, Philosophie und Ethnologie. Sie beleuchten verschiedenste Aspekte des täglichen Lebens vor allem in China vom Altertum bis in die Gegenwart. Dazu zählen ebenso die Aufnahme fremder Technologien in der Bronzeverarbeitung wie die Untersuchung von Ritualen und Wohnformen in der chinesischen Frühgeschichte, die Neubewertung zweier grundlegender Inschriftentexte aus der frühen Kaiserzeit wie die moderne Reinterpretation klassisch konfuzianischer Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten. Ergänzt werden die Studien zur chinesischen Geschichte durch Beiträge zum Stadtleben der gebildeten Oberschicht im alten Indien und zum Leben mit Ruinen im antiken Rom. Auf diese Weise bietet dieser vielseitige Band nicht nur Sinologen, sondern auch archäologisch, geschichtswissenschaftlich, kunsthistorisch, philosophisch und ethnologisch interessierten Lesern zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, Neues zu entdecken.

Table of Contents:

Vorwort
Tabula gratulatoria
Schriftenverzeichnis

Hans van Ess, München
Mit Thomas Höllmann Tür an Tür

ALLTAG UND MEHR IM ALTEN CHINA

Jessica Rawson, Oxford
Bronze Vessels in Early China

Lothar von Falkenhausen, Los Angeles
Communication with the Divine Sphere in Ancient China

Maria Khayutina, München
Western Zhou Living Ambience: Earth-Sheltered Dwellings
in the Feng River Valley

Reinhard Emmerich, Münster
Chinas Zweiter Kaiser in neuem Lichte?

Armin Selbitschka, Shanghai
Quotidian Afterlife: Grain, Granary Models, and the Notion of Continuing
Nourishment in Late Pre-imperial and Early Imperial Tombs

Michael Loewe, Cambridge
Displaced Persons in Han China and the So-called “Mausoleum Towns”

Bai Yunxiang 白雲翔, Beijing

論漢代人生活中的魚和觀念中的魚

(Fish in Han China: Aesthetic, Symbolic, and Culinary Aspects)

Catrin Kost, München
Von Schmutzfinken, Saubermännern und Barbaren: Überlegungen
zur Stellung der Körperpflege im China der Han-Dynastie

Annette Kieser, Münster
Von Duftsäckchen und Schweinekoben: Toilettenmodelle
aus Gräbern der Sechs Dynastien in Südchina

Shing Müller, München
Zelte der Tuoba-Xianbei im 5. Jh.: Eine vorläufige Untersuchung

Lin Meicun 林梅村, Beijing
唐代文人的追求與夢想—唐代文人庭院建築遺跡調查
(Pursuit and Dreams of Chinese Scholars in the Tang Dynasty:
A Survey on Scholars’ Courtyards of Tang Times based on
Archaeological Finds and Written Sources)

JENSEITS DER CHINESISCHEN KULTUR

Roderich Ptak, München
Vom „Hundestaat“ nach Liuqiu und zu den „Ziegen-Inseln“:
Anmerkungen zu einer Meerfahrt im Lingbiao lu yi

Erhard Rosner, Göttingen
Marginalien zur Geschichte des Betelkauens in China

Hans van Ess, München
Der Name der Uiguren

Bruno J. Richtsfeld, München
Ursprungsmythen der Lhopa (Bangni-Bokar) in Südost-Tibet

Jens-Uwe Hartmann, München
Das Leben des kultivierten Städters im frühen Indien: Alltag oder Ideal?

Martin Zimmermann, München
Lost cities, urban explorers und antike Landschaften: Vom Leben mit Ruinen

PHILOSOPHISCHE ASPEKTE

Guje Kroh, München
Überlegungen zu Begriffen des Erkennens bzw. Wissens bei Xi Kang

Marc Nürnberger, München
Meister des Alltags

Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Tempe
Reflections on Chinese Student Opinions on
the Modernized Zhu Confucian Wedding

KOLOPHON

Lothar Ledderose, Heidelberg
Kolophone in China und Europa

A Companion to Chinese History

Editor: 
Michael Szonyi

Publisher: 
Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 
January 2017

Abstract:

A Companion to Chinese History presents a collection of essays offering a comprehensive overview of the latest intellectual developments in the study of China’s history from the ancient past up until the present day.

Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
Michael Szonyi

Section I: States of the Field

2. How Do We Know What We Know About Chinese History?
Endymion Wilkinson

3. Chinese History in China: The State of the Field (1980s-2010s)
May-bo Ching

4. Chinese History in Japan: The State of the Field
Shiba Yoshinobu

5. Chinese History in Europe: The State of the Field
Harriet Zurndorfer

6. Chinese History in the Era of the China Dream
Geremie R Barmé and Michael Szonyi

7. Chinese History in World History
Gregory Blue

Section II Chronology

8. Early China in Eurasian History
Michael Puett

9. Was Medieval China Medieval? (Post-Han to Mid-Tang)
Charles Holcombe

10. A Tang-Song Turning Point
Nicolas Tacket

11. Periods of Non-Chinese (or Non-Han) Rule
Michal Biran

12. Song to Qing: Late Imperial or Early Modern?
R. Kent Guy

13. Nineteenth-Century China: The Evolution of American Historical Approaches
Paul A. Cohen

14. Republican History
Janet Y. Chen

15. Rethinking the History of Maoist China
S.A. Smith

16. The Reform Era as History
Timothy Cheek

Section III Themes and Approaches

17. Women, Gender, the Family and Sexuality
Weijing Lu

18. History of Premodern Chinese Literature
Graham Sanders

19. Modern Chinese Literature
David Der-wei Wang

20. The Environmental History of China: Past, Present, and Future
Peter C. Perdue

21. Science, Technology, and Medicine
Carla Nappi

22. Legal History
William P. Alford and Eric T. Schluessel

23. Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Identity in the Study of Modern China
Thomas S. Mullaney

24. The Religious Core of Local Social Organization
Barend ter Haar

25. Beyond the Great Divergence: Current Scholarship on the Economic History of Premodern China
Richard von Glahn

26. Taiwan: Margin, Center, Node
Shelley Rigger

27. Chinese Migrations
Henry S.N. Yu

28. China in the World: Beyond the Tribute System
John E. Wills, Jr.

Glossary
Index