Chittick (East Asian humanities, Eckerd College) guides the reader through the history of the Xiangyang region of China in 400-600 CE. This area was considered a backwater by the imperial government,
A vivid portrait of the culture of a provincial military society in China’s early medieval period and its interactions with the southern imperial court.
This volume treats “China” first and foremost as an evolving and imagined geographical entity. The contributors explore China’s last five hundred years of history using geography as a lens through whi
