Ritual Practices For Constructing Terrestrial

Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004168350.i-1312.96

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Designing Boundaries in Early China

Olberding

2021

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Ancient Chinese walls, such as the Great Wall of China, were not sovereign border lines. Instead, sovereign space was zonally exerted with monarchical powers expressed gradually over an area, based on possibilities for administrative action. The dynamically shifting, ritualized articulation of early Chinese sovereignty affects the interpretation of the spatial application of state force, including its cartographic representations. In Designing Boundaries in Early China, Garret Pagenstecher Olberding draws on a wide array of source materials concerning the territorialization of space to make a compelling case for how sovereign spaces were defined and regulated in this part of the ancient world. By considering the ways sovereignty extended itself across vast expanses in early China, Olberding informs our understanding of the ancient world and the nature of modern nation-states.

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Designing Boundaries in Early China

Olberding

2021

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Limits of All-Under-Heaven: Ideology and Praxis of “Great Unity” in Early Chinese Empire

Pines¹

2021

The Limits of Universal Rule

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Political mythology and dynastic legitimacy in theRong Cheng shimanuscript

Pines

2010

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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In this article I provide a complete translation and analysis of the recently unearthed bamboo manuscript, Rong Cheng shi, from the Shanghai Museum collection. This manuscript presents a previously unknown version of China's early history from the time of legendary rulers Yao, Shun, Yu and their predecessors to the establishment of the Zhou dynasty. The narrative is critical of both the dynastic principle of rule and “righteous rebellion”, and advocates instead the ruler's abdication in favour of a worthier candidate as the best mode of rule; in addition, it hints at the unusually active role of “the people” in establishing the supreme ruler. Moreover, despite being associated with the southern state of Chu, the Rong Cheng shi presents a unitary view of the past, which rejects the multi-state world and promulgates the notion of the unified “All-under-Heaven” as singularly legitimate. The text has far-reaching significance in terms of both history of Chinese political thought and of early Chinese historiography.

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Ritual Practices For Constructing Terrestrial

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Designing Boundaries in Early China

Designing Boundaries in Early China

Limits of All-Under-Heaven: Ideology and Praxis of “Great Unity” in Early Chinese Empire

Political mythology and dynastic legitimacy in theRong Cheng shimanuscript

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