Andrew Chittick is the E. Leslie Peter Professor of East Asian Humanities and History at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL. A native of California, he received his PhD in History from the University of Michigan in 1997. He is the author of Patronage and Community in Medieval China: The XiangyangGarrison, 400-600 CE (SUNY Press, 2010). He is currently working on maritime interchanges between Sino-Southeast Asia and the Malay world in the first millennium CE.
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
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