Medieval Daoist Concepts of the Middle Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19570451 |
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| Authors | Yi Liu (0000-0001-7733-3290, Capital Normal University, corresponding author), Casey Lee |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 179-196 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Chinese Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2352-1333 • E-ISSN: 2352-1341 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/23521341-12340063 |
| OpenAlex | W2934315795 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The ancient Chinese people believed that they existed at the center of the world. With the arrival of Buddhism in China came a new cosmic worldview rooted in Indian culture that destabilized the Han [ huaxia 華夏] people’s long-held notions of China as the Middle Kingdom [ Zhongguo 中國] and had a profound influence on medieval Daoism. Under the influence of Buddhist cosmology, Daoists reformed their idea of Middle Kingdom, for a time relinquishing its signification of China as the center of the world. Daoists had to acknowledge the existence of multiple kingdoms outside China and non-Han peoples [ manyi 蠻夷] who resided on the outskirts of the so-called Middle Kingdom as potential followers of Daoism. However, during the Tang dynasty, this capacious attitude ceased to be maintained or passed on. Instead, Tang Daoists returned to a notion of Middle Kingdom that reinstated the traditional divide between Han and non-Han peoples
Ancient history · Archaeology · Buddhism · China · Geography · Han chinese · Kingdom · Middle East · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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