Andrew Chittick

Biographic Data

ID4774009
NAMEAndrew Chittick
GIVEN NAMESAndrew
FAMILY NAMEChittick
SIGNATURECHITTICK A
AFFILIATIONSEckerd College
ORCID0000-0001-8461-2538
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • The Wu Region as Locality and as Empire

    Andrew ChittickARTICLEEast Asian Science Technology and…2022

    This essay uses the history of the Wu region in the first millennium ce to explore the relationship between locality and empire. Many major East Asian empires are considered to be “Chinese” and to have essentially similar characteristics which are largely independent of their local base. Recent work on the Jiankang Empire (third to sixth centuries ce , also known as the “southern dynasties”) has shown that it had an imperial culture which was qui…

  • The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History: Ethnic Identity and Political Culture

    Andrew ChittickBOOKJiankang Empire in Chinese and…2020

    This work offers a sweeping reassessment of the Jiankang Empire (third to sixth centuries CE), known as the Chinese “Southern Dynasties.” It shows how, although one of the medieval world’s largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist history, and proposes a new framework and terminology for writing about medieval East Asia. The book pays particular attention to the problem of e…

  • Thinking Regionally in Early Medieval Studies: A Manifesto

    Andrew ChittickARTICLEEarly Medieval China2020

    In a recent leading article in the Journal of Asian Studies, Hugh Clark critiques the teleological construct of a unified China, arguing that, at least up through the tenth century, the unified regimes of Qin/Han and Sui/Tang were a “superficial overlay” atop an East Asia comprised of many diverse cultural regions. I believe that scholars should take up Clark’s critique as an invitation: to write meaningful histories of East Asian cultural region…

  • Premodern History and the Frontiers of the South China Sea

    Megan Bryson, Andrew Chittick et al.ARTICLEVerge Studies in Global Asias2018

    Convergence 1 A&Q Premodern History and the Frontiers of the South China Sea In this A&Q feature, five scholars working on the premodern history of what is now south China and continental Southeast Asia respond to the following prompts of their choosing, and one provides a metacommentary to evaluate the responses in light of future directions for study. The prompts were designed to elucidate difficulties these scholars encounter when trying to cr…

  • The Song Navy and the Invention of Dragon Boat Racing

    Andrew ChittickARTICLEJournal of Sung-Yuan studies2011Cited by: 1References: 1

    The Song Navy and the Invention of Dragon Boat Racing Andrew Chittick Scholarly research on the Dragon Boat Festival (called Duanwu 端午 in Mandarin Chinese) and its signature event, the dragon boat races, has been moribund for quite a few decades. Claimed by Wen Yiduo 聞一多 in the 1920s to be a primitive ritual for dragon totems with an ancient history dating back before the Warring States period, the races subsequently became conceptualized as an a…

  • Patronage and Community in Medieval China: The Xiangyang Garrison, 400-600 CE

    Andrew ChittickBOOKPatronage and Community in…2010

  • The Development of Local Writing in Early Medieval China

    Andrew ChittickARTICLEEarly Medieval China2003

    (2003). The Development of Local Writing in Early Medieval China. Early Medieval China: Vol. 2003, No. 1, pp. 35-70

  • History and the Three Kingdoms: Three Recent Approaches

    Andrew ChittickARTICLEEarly Medieval China2001

    (2001). History and the Three Kingdoms: Three Recent Approaches. Early Medieval China: Vol. 2001, No. 1, pp. 79-107