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The Way of the Barbarians

- Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China
Af: Shao-yun Yang Engelsk Paperback

The Way of the Barbarians

- Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China
Af: Shao-yun Yang Engelsk Paperback
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Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, “barbarism,” were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority. The key issues at stake concerned the acceptability of intellectual pluralism in a Chinese society and the importance of Confucian moral values to the integrity and continuity of the Chinese state. Through close reading of the contexts and changing geopolitical realities in which new interpretations of identity emerged, this intellectual history engages with ongoing debates over relevance of the concepts of culture, nation, and ethnicity to premodern China.

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Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, “barbarism,” were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority. The key issues at stake concerned the acceptability of intellectual pluralism in a Chinese society and the importance of Confucian moral values to the integrity and continuity of the Chinese state. Through close reading of the contexts and changing geopolitical realities in which new interpretations of identity emerged, this intellectual history engages with ongoing debates over relevance of the concepts of culture, nation, and ethnicity to premodern China.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 242
ISBN-13: 9780295746036
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0295746033
Kategori: China
Udg. Dato: 14 okt 2019
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 226mm
Højde: 153mm
Forlag: University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato: 14 okt 2019
Forfatter(e): Shao-yun Yang
Forfatter(e) Shao-yun Yang

Kategori China

ISBN-13 9780295746036

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 242

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 226mm

Højde 153mm

Udg. Dato 14 okt 2019

Oplagsdato 14 okt 2019

Forlag University of Washington Press