Article ID: CBB822947139

The Wu Region as Locality and as Empire (2022)

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Abstract This essay uses the history of the Wu region in the first millennium ce to explore the relationship between locality and empire. Many major East Asian empires are considered to be “Chinese” and to have essentially similar characteristics which are largely independent of their local base. Recent work on the Jiankang Empire (third to sixth centuries ce, also known as the “southern dynasties”) has shown that it had an imperial culture which was quite different from Central Plains-based empires, and which is in part attributable to the distinctive culture of the local Wu region. The relationship can be further illustrated by linking those developments to evidence from the tenth century, when the Wu region again served as the core of a political regime with imperial pretentions.

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Authors & Contributors
Gautier Dalché, Patrick
Belknap, Geoffrey
Corrado, Sharyl
Van Duzer, Chet A.
Hanson, Marta E.
Hessler, John W.
Journals
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Geographia antiqua
Journal of Historical Geography
Erdem
History of Science
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Publishers
University of Minnesota
Levenger Press
Routledge
University of Chicago Press
The National Archives (London)
Concepts
Geography
Historical geography
Imperialism
Travel; exploration
Cartography
Maps; atlases
People
Diodorus Siculus
Nevelʹskoĭ, Gennadiĭ Ivanovich
Polo, Marco
Raleigh, Walter
Sezgin, Fuat
Thomson, John
Time Periods
Medieval
16th century
19th century
17th century
Renaissance
10th century
Places
China
Great Britain
Europe
Mediterranean region
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
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