The Imperial Network In Ancient China: The Foundation Of Sinitic Empire In Southern East Asia (Routledge Studies In The Early History Of Asia)

List of illustrations -- Historical periods -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Before the empire: the middle Yangzi interaction space -- Chapter 3. Qin's southward expansion -- Chapter 4. The Qin empire in the south: territoriality, organization, challenges -- Chapter 5. Local administration in the south -- Chapter 6. Resources and resource exploitation -- Chapter 7. Southern borderlands after the Qin -- Epilogue: Networks, empires, world-systems: southern East Asia and the dynamics of early Sinitic empire -- Appendix 1. Origins of individuals in Qianling County -- Appendix 2. Grain ration records in Qianling County -- Appendix 3. Increase in the registered population of the southern commanderies between 2 CE and 156 CE -- Glossary of Chinese terms -- Bibliography.

• | Author: Maxim Korolkov
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 300 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367654296
• | ISBN-13: 9780367654290