Northern Wei (386-534)
A New Form of Empire in East Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23557004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Pearce (Professor, Western Washington University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Northern Wei (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780197600399.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4377021439 |
| Open Library | OL46573059M |
| ISBN | 9780197600399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Northern Wei is a study of an Inner Asian people called the *Taghbach (Ch. Tuoba), who half a century after collapse of the Han state (206 bce–220 ce) began the process of building a new kind of empire in East Asia. Though addressing larger historiographical issues, the book’s main purpose is, within the limits of our sources, to see this people in and of themselves, in a detailed narrative that follows them from the emergence of the khaghan Liwei in the mid-third century, in the highland frontier between Inner Asia and the Chinese world, and ends almost 300 years later, with the drowning of the dynasty’s last matriarch in the Yellow River. Across the centuries, they repeatedly changed their name, nature, and location. What remained relatively consistent, however, was their reliance on cavalry armies, filled with loyal men of Inner Asian origin. When that ended, the dynasty ended as well. Underlying the narrative are two main issues. One is that the Northern Wei was the first major example of a kind of empire seen often in East Asian histories, the “conquest dynasties,” regimes of Inner Asian origin that would over the centuries repeatedly seize control of territories inhabited for the most part by Chinese to create cultural and ethnically complex state systems. The second is historiographical: that this dynasty was renamed and reimagined to fit into the textual tradition of its Chinese subjects. Being our only primary written sources for the dynasty, these texts are here used with care.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · China · CONQUEST · East Asia · Empire · Frontier · Genealogy · Geography · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · State (computer science) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History
The Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra and its transmission in Pingcheng 平城 period (398–494) of the Northern Wei 北魏
The Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra and the Formation of Early Dilun 地論 Buddhism During the Luoyang 洛陽 Period of the Northern Wei 北魏
Cosmopolitanism and imperial women in the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties (304-581)
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |