Table of Contents

Preface
1 Introduction: The Invisible Empire Section One: Proto-Ethnic Identities
2 The Discourse of Ethnicity 3 Agriculture and Foodways 4 Vernacular Languages Section Two: Political Culture
5 Marking Territory: The Militarization of the Huai Frontier
6 Making Hierarchy: Garrison, Court, and the Structure of Jiankang Politics
7 Managing Prosperity: The Political Economy of a Commercial Empire Section Three: Repertoires of Legitimation
8 The Vernacular Repertoire
9 The Sinitic Repertoire
10 The Buddhist Repertoire: The Era of Pluralist Patronage
11 The Buddhist Repertoire: Jiankang as Theater State 12 Conclusion: Re-Orienting East Asian and World History Appendix A: The Population of the Jiankang Empire
Appendix B: Migration
Appendix C: Geographic Distribution of Office-holding Bibliography

About the Author

Andrew Chittick is the E. Leslie Peter Professor of East Asian Humanities and History at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL. A native of California, he received his PhD in History from the University of Michigan in 1997. He is the author of Patronage and Community in Medieval China: The Xiangyang Garrison, 400-600 CE (SUNY Press, 2010). He is currently working on maritime interchanges between Sino-Southeast Asia and the Malay world in the
first millennium CE.

Reviews

The book is bound to stimulate debate and inspire exciting research across these fields.
*Andreas Janousch, Autonomous University of Madrid, Journal of the American Oriental Society*

An ambitious book
*TIAN Xiaofei, Journal of Chinese Studies*