1st Edition
The Imperial Network in Ancient China The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia
By Maxim Korolkov
Copyright 2022
316 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
316 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
316 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca. 400 BCE–200 CE as a network-based process, showing how the geography of early interregional contacts south of the Yangzi River informed the directions of Sinitic state expansion.
Drawing from an extensive collection of sources including transmitted textual records, archaeological evidence, excavated legal... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Before the Empire: the Middle Yangzi interaction space
3. Qin’s southward expansion
4. The Qin Empire in the South: territoriality, organization, challenges
5. Local administration in the South
6. Resources and resource exploitation
7. Southern Borderlands after the Qin
Biography
Maxim Korolkov is Assistant Professor of premodern Chinese history at Heidelberg University and Research Associate at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. His work focuses on the economic and institutional change associated with the imperial state formation in ancient and early medieval East Asia.
