Charles Holcombe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3830165 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Charles Holcombe |
| NOMBRES | Charles |
| APELLIDO | Holcombe |
| FIRMA | HOLCOMBE C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Northern Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5471-7846 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
How Chinese Was the Northern Wei
Lords of the Marches
This study explores group identity perception in early medieval China at a time of peak ethno-cultural complexity, as north China was falling under the control of multiple ostensibly “non-Chinese” peoples in the early fourth century. The subject is approached through an examination of the careers of two especially significant northern frontier officials, Liu Kun (271–318) and Wang Jun (252–314), and their interactions with neighboring Xianbei peo…
The Tabgatch empire and the idea of China
A proposal has recently been made to relabel most of the period of Chinese history commonly known as the Northern Dynasties (386–581 CE) as “the Tabgatch empire.” The hope is that such a change might help avoid teleological assumptions that these dynasties were merely half of a temporarily divided China that was destined to eventually be reunified. This change of label also emphasizes the ethnic non-Han Chinese origins of these dynasties’ rulers …
A History of East Asia
Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart of this ambitious book, which traces the story of …
The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907
The Genesis of East Asia examines in a comprehensive and novel way the critically formative period when a culturally coherent geopolitical region identifiable as East Asia first took shape. By sifting through an impressive array of both primary material and modern interpretations, Charles Holcombe unravels what East Asia means, and why. He brings to bear archaeological, textual, and linguistic evidence to elucidate how the region developed throug…
In the Shadow of the Han
Charles Holcombe's study of the society and thought of the Eastern Jin (318-420) elite is a valuable addition to what has . . . been a rather thin English-language literature on early medieval history. In the Shadow of the Han makes a compelling case ... that the 'period of disunity' between the Han and the Tang has been an unjustly neglected area. . . . It will prove stimulating reading for early medieval specialists, and . . . [for others] it w…
The Sinitic Encounter in Southeast China through the First Millennium CE
The Sinitic Encounter in Southeast China through the First Millennium CE." Early Medieval China, 2016(22), pp. 71–72
East Asia
Traditional discourses on gender and sexuality, even as they helped shape the processes of urbanization, commercialization and state-building in the ancient world, were themselves profoundly affected by the growth of political, economic, and religious networks across Eurasia and northern Africa. This chapter examines literary representations of masculinity and femininity in 'world-encompassing' genres like epic and romance, showing how imaginativ…
The Cambridge World History
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these large-scale entities, this fourth volume of The Cambridge World History outlines key economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period. Leading scholars examine critical transformations…
Chinese Shōgun
Notes1. The familiar standard imperial title tennō was, however, “in disuse between 1200 and 1840” (Herman Ooms, Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650–800, Honolulu, HI: Taylor & Francis, 2009, 269n5).2. The exception was the Muromachi (or Ashikaga) period from 1338 to 1573, during which both emperor and shōgun were resident in Kyōto, in western Honshū. Otherwise, from 1192 to 1333 the shogunate was headquartere…
The Xianbei in Chinese History
The Xianbei were perhaps the most prominent of the various non-Chinese peoples active in north China during the Age of Division. They established a number of imperial dynasties there, some of which were admittedly no more than ephemeral footnotes to history, but others of which—notably including the Northern Wei—are commonly viewed as having been major dynasties, squarely in the legitimate line of Chinese dynastic succession. In addition, the Xia…
The Last Lord of the South
Southern Integration
Notes1. Since the effective end of Han imperial unity around 184, and with the exception of a brief reunification after 280, which began to disintegrate within little more than a decade.2. See Edward H. Schafer, “The Yeh Chung Chi,”T’oung Pao, 76.4–5 (1990): 147–49.Liu Xueyao, Wu‐hu shi lun (Essays in the History of the Five [non‐Chinese peoples known as] Hu) (Taibei, 2001), 1, 9–10. Wang Mingke, Huaxia bianyuan: lishi jiyi yu zuqun rentong (The …
Immigrants and Strangers
A n immigrant monk from northern India named Amoghavajra ^ S H j i c (705-774) served as Preceptor of State for three midTang dynasty emperors, held ministerial court rank, and enjoyed lavish honors. Earlier, in 638, a Nestorian Christian church was erected at Tang capital by imperial decree, w i th explanation that the Tao has no constant name, Sage has no constant form, and religions are established according to their [different] places. Over c…
The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907
Patterns of Disengagement
While the customary path to achievement in traditional China was through service to the state, from the earliest times certain individuals had been acclaimed for repudiating an official career. This book traces the formulation and portrayal of the practice of reclusion in China from the earliest times through the sixth century, by which time reclusion had taken on its enduring character. Those who decided to withhold their service to state govern…
Academies and Society in Southern Sung China
Writing and Authority in Early China
Trade-Buddhism
entations. These oceanic interests connected Japan with the wider, still too little understood, world of trade and immigration that was actively bridging the distances between continental East Asia, the South Seas, and India. International trade spread both tangible and intangible commodities, including ideas, and served as the vehicle for the propagation of Buddhism. Japan, while occupying the far northeastern fringe of this old-world trading co…
To Establish Peace
(1998). To Establish Peace: Being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang. Early Medieval China: Vol. 1998, No. 1, pp. 166-169
Ritsuryo Confucianism
Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China
Re-Imagining China
Au debut du 4e s. apr. J.-C., la majorite du nord de la Chine tombe sous controle de groupes ethniques non chinois. Ce qui reste de la cour chinoise se refugie dans la region du Yangtze, ou s'installe la dynastie des Jin orientaux en exil. Les dirigeants emigres de la 1ere dynastie du sud se trouvent donc confrontes a un serieux probleme : recreer un etat chinois dans des conditions tres peu favorables. Alors que le systeme imperial etait particu…
The Bonds of Empire
Theater of Combat
Notes1. See Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813 (New Haven, 1976), 29 and 296, note 87, and “The Transmission of White Lotus Sectarianism in Late Imperial China,”Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, ed. David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan and Evelyn S. Rawski (Berkeley, 1985), 275; and Daniel L. Overmyer, Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China (Cambridge, 1976), 119–20.2. Hu…
Trade-Buddhism
entations. These oceanic interests connected Japan with the wider, still too little understood, world of trade and immigration that was actively bridging the distances between continental East Asia, the South Seas, and India. International trade spread both tangible and intangible commodities, including ideas, and served as the vehicle for the propagation of Buddhism. Japan, while occupying the far northeastern fringe of this old-world trading co…
Re-Imagining China
Au debut du 4e s. apr. J.-C., la majorite du nord de la Chine tombe sous controle de groupes ethniques non chinois. Ce qui reste de la cour chinoise se refugie dans la region du Yangtze, ou s'installe la dynastie des Jin orientaux en exil. Les dirigeants emigres de la 1ere dynastie du sud se trouvent donc confrontes a un serieux probleme : recreer un etat chinois dans des conditions tres peu favorables. Alors que le systeme imperial etait particu…
The Exemplar State
Theater of Combat
Notes1. See Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813 (New Haven, 1976), 29 and 296, note 87, and “The Transmission of White Lotus Sectarianism in Late Imperial China,”Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, ed. David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan and Evelyn S. Rawski (Berkeley, 1985), 275; and Daniel L. Overmyer, Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China (Cambridge, 1976), 119–20.2. Hu…
The Fu-Tzu
The Bonds of Empire
Re-Imagining China
Au debut du 4e s. apr. J.-C., la majorite du nord de la Chine tombe sous controle de groupes ethniques non chinois. Ce qui reste de la cour chinoise se refugie dans la region du Yangtze, ou s'installe la dynastie des Jin orientaux en exil. Les dirigeants emigres de la 1ere dynastie du sud se trouvent donc confrontes a un serieux probleme : recreer un etat chinois dans des conditions tres peu favorables. Alors que le systeme imperial etait particu…
Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China
Ritsuryo Confucianism
To Establish Peace
(1998). To Establish Peace: Being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang. Early Medieval China: Vol. 1998, No. 1, pp. 166-169
Trade-Buddhism
entations. These oceanic interests connected Japan with the wider, still too little understood, world of trade and immigration that was actively bridging the distances between continental East Asia, the South Seas, and India. International trade spread both tangible and intangible commodities, including ideas, and served as the vehicle for the propagation of Buddhism. Japan, while occupying the far northeastern fringe of this old-world trading co…
Academies and Society in Southern Sung China
Writing and Authority in Early China
Immigrants and Strangers
A n immigrant monk from northern India named Amoghavajra ^ S H j i c (705-774) served as Preceptor of State for three midTang dynasty emperors, held ministerial court rank, and enjoyed lavish honors. Earlier, in 638, a Nestorian Christian church was erected at Tang capital by imperial decree, w i th explanation that the Tao has no constant name, Sage has no constant form, and religions are established according to their [different] places. Over c…
The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907
Patterns of Disengagement
While the customary path to achievement in traditional China was through service to the state, from the earliest times certain individuals had been acclaimed for repudiating an official career. This book traces the formulation and portrayal of the practice of reclusion in China from the earliest times through the sixth century, by which time reclusion had taken on its enduring character. Those who decided to withhold their service to state govern…
Southern Integration
Notes1. Since the effective end of Han imperial unity around 184, and with the exception of a brief reunification after 280, which began to disintegrate within little more than a decade.2. See Edward H. Schafer, “The Yeh Chung Chi,”T’oung Pao, 76.4–5 (1990): 147–49.Liu Xueyao, Wu‐hu shi lun (Essays in the History of the Five [non‐Chinese peoples known as] Hu) (Taibei, 2001), 1, 9–10. Wang Mingke, Huaxia bianyuan: lishi jiyi yu zuqun rentong (The …
The Last Lord of the South
The Xianbei in Chinese History
The Xianbei were perhaps the most prominent of the various non-Chinese peoples active in north China during the Age of Division. They established a number of imperial dynasties there, some of which were admittedly no more than ephemeral footnotes to history, but others of which—notably including the Northern Wei—are commonly viewed as having been major dynasties, squarely in the legitimate line of Chinese dynastic succession. In addition, the Xia…
Chinese Shōgun
Notes1. The familiar standard imperial title tennō was, however, “in disuse between 1200 and 1840” (Herman Ooms, Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650–800, Honolulu, HI: Taylor & Francis, 2009, 269n5).2. The exception was the Muromachi (or Ashikaga) period from 1338 to 1573, during which both emperor and shōgun were resident in Kyōto, in western Honshū. Otherwise, from 1192 to 1333 the shogunate was headquartere…
East Asia
Traditional discourses on gender and sexuality, even as they helped shape the processes of urbanization, commercialization and state-building in the ancient world, were themselves profoundly affected by the growth of political, economic, and religious networks across Eurasia and northern Africa. This chapter examines literary representations of masculinity and femininity in 'world-encompassing' genres like epic and romance, showing how imaginativ…
The Cambridge World History
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these large-scale entities, this fourth volume of The Cambridge World History outlines key economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period. Leading scholars examine critical transformations…
The Sinitic Encounter in Southeast China through the First Millennium CE
The Sinitic Encounter in Southeast China through the First Millennium CE." Early Medieval China, 2016(22), pp. 71–72
A History of East Asia
Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart of this ambitious book, which traces the story of …
The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907
The Genesis of East Asia examines in a comprehensive and novel way the critically formative period when a culturally coherent geopolitical region identifiable as East Asia first took shape. By sifting through an impressive array of both primary material and modern interpretations, Charles Holcombe unravels what East Asia means, and why. He brings to bear archaeological, textual, and linguistic evidence to elucidate how the region developed throug…
In the Shadow of the Han
Charles Holcombe's study of the society and thought of the Eastern Jin (318-420) elite is a valuable addition to what has . . . been a rather thin English-language literature on early medieval history. In the Shadow of the Han makes a compelling case ... that the 'period of disunity' between the Han and the Tang has been an unjustly neglected area. . . . It will prove stimulating reading for early medieval specialists, and . . . [for others] it w…
Lords of the Marches
This study explores group identity perception in early medieval China at a time of peak ethno-cultural complexity, as north China was falling under the control of multiple ostensibly “non-Chinese” peoples in the early fourth century. The subject is approached through an examination of the careers of two especially significant northern frontier officials, Liu Kun (271–318) and Wang Jun (252–314), and their interactions with neighboring Xianbei peo…
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