Garret Pagenstecher Olberding

Designing Boundaries in Early China

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how sovereign space in early China was imagined and negotiated in the ancient world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781316513699
• ISBN-10: 1316513696
• Artikelnr.: 62353111

Autorenporträt

Garret Pagenstecher Olberding is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Dubious Facts: The Evidence of Early Chinese Historiography (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Preamble
1. The basis of ancient borders
2. The visual modeling of space in text and map
3. Movement and geography
4. The perception of the 'state': the internal definition of sovereign space
5. The perception of the 'enemy': the external definition of sovereign space
6. Transgressions: rupturing the boundaries between sovereignties
Conclusion.