The Dong world and imperial China's southwest Silk Road : trade, security, and state formation / James A. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, James, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Foreign relations--Indochina.

China.

Indochina--Foreign relations--China.

Indochina.

Silk Road--History.

Silk Road.

China--History--Song dynasty, 960-1279.

China, Southwest--Commerce--History.

China, Southwest.

Indochina--Commerce--History.

Vietnam--History--939-1428.

Vietnam.

Vietnam--Relations--China.

China--Relations--Vietnam.

China, Southwest--Economic conditions.

Indochina--Economic conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2024]

Summary:

Brings a borderlands perspective to the history of China From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China's rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. These ties dramatically affected imperial China's relations with the emerging kingdoms in its borderlands. Local chiefs before the tenth century had considered the control of such contacts an important aspect of their political authority. Rulers and high officials at the Chinese court valued commerce in the region, where rare commodities could be obtained and vassal kingdoms showed less belligerence than did northern ones. Trade routes along this Southwest Silk Road traverse the homelands of numerous non-Han peoples. This book investigates the principalities, chiefdoms, and market nodes that emerged and flourished in the network of routes that passed through what James A. Anderson calls the "Dong world," a collection of Tai-speaking polities in upland valleys. The process of state formation that arose through trade coincided with the differentiation of peoples who were later labeled as distinct ethnicities. Exploration of this formative period at the nexus of the Chinese empire, the Dali kingdom, and the Vietnamese kingdom reveals a nuanced picture of the Chinese province of Yunnan and its southern neighbors preceding Mongol efforts to impose a new administrative order in the region. These communities shared a regional identity and a lively history of interaction well before northern occupiers classified its inhabitants as "national minorities" of China.-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Conventions

Chronology of dynasties and kingdoms

Introduction: Borderlands engagement in Imperial China

The Southwest Silk Road and the Dong world

The Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms as multiethnic states

The Đại Việt Kingdom's engagement with the Dong world

Borderlands engagement in the Song period

The Dong world in the face of Mongol expansion

Conclusion: The Dong world through today

Appendix 1: Reconstructed routes

Appendix 2: Locating the Dong world.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on September 26, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Anderson, James, 1963- Dong world and imperial China's southwest Silk Road.

ISBN:

9780295752785

0295752785

OCLC:

1442929450

Access Restriction:

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