《古代中國的帝國網絡——中華帝國在東亞南部的建立》出版
作者:與聞  發布時間:2021-12-09 16:11:40    德國海德堡大學漢學系助理教授Maxim Korolkov(馬碩)先生研究古代中華帝國的形成及其相關的經濟、社會和制度變遷,他的新書《The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia》(《古代中國的帝國網絡——中華帝國在東亞南部的建立》),2021年11月由Routledge出版發行。承馬碩先生慨允,茲將該書主要內容、目次揭載如下。    
  
主要內容

  《古代中國的帝國網絡——中華帝國在東亞南部的建立》通過對傳世文獻、考古資料與出土法律及行政文書簡牘的分析,作者探討南方交流網絡中流動的人力、物資和文化資源,以及不同地區之間在交流過程中形成的經濟、政治與軍事結構,揭示了帝國建造者如何善用這些資源和結構、以鞏固對東亞南部領土的控制。該書還研究秦漢時代“帝國網絡”與東亞南部人群所參與的其他長途交流結構之間的關係,嘗試證明“帝國網絡”和“非帝國網絡”的互動關係影響東亞長期的政治經濟發展、以及中國對中世紀歐亞全球化的參與。該書深化了帝國比較研究,爲帝國形成史與世界體系模型在前現代史研究中的適用性討論貢獻了成果。    
  
目次

  List of figures x
  List of tables      xii
  Historical periods    xiii
  Acknowledgments     xiv
  1 Introduction 1
  Theoretical frameworks: Networks, world-systems, borderlands     5
  Scholarly context: New approaches to southern East Asia    8
  Rise and fall of the Qin Empire: The triumph and tragedy unnoticed?     11
  Two perspectives on the Qin Empire     12
  Excavated documents and their context    17
  Outline of content        19
  
  2 Before the empire: The Middle Yangzi interaction space 35
  Geographical outline     36
  Emergence of the Middle Yangzi interaction space    38
  From interaction space to territorial state       43
  Concluding remarks: Interaction, consolidation, and expansion     52
  
  3 Qins southward expansion in the Warring States period 65
  An unexpected strategic turn?                   66
  From connectivity to conquest                    66
  Drive to the south: Qin arrives on the Middle Yangzi            73
  Fighting Chu (mid-fourth century to 221 BCE)        75
  Incorporating the conquered territories north of Yangzi          78
  Concluding remarks: A long-term perspective on empire-building           81
  
  4 The Qin Empire in the south: Territoriality, organization,challenges 91
  Lands old and new: Qin imperial territoriality             92
  A dynamic frontier in the South               97
  Administrative organization south of the Middle Yangzi         99
  Challenges from within: Insurgency, unrest, and control over populations       104
  Concluding remarks: A house divided against itself?            108
  
  5 Local administration in the south 117
  The You River valley on the eve of the Qin conquest      119
  Territorial administration in Qianling County        121
  Settlements and communities       124
  Forced migrations and unfree population      129
  Government spending and monetization        134
  Concluding remarks: The local dimension of state power      137
  
  6 Resources and resource exploitation 145
  Agricultural resources        146
  Metals                       155
  Plants, animals, and wildlife products               157
  Concluding remarks: The stuff of the empire             161
  
  7 Southern borderlands after the Qin 170
  After the fall: The East Asian political space in the early second century BCE         172
  The Han reconquest of the south         180
  Maturation of the imperial network: Demographic, political, and economic geography of the early Sinitic empire in southern East Asia        183
  Concluding remarks: The imperial network and the fluctuating contours of the Sinitic empire in the South  191
  
  8 Epilogue: Networks, empires, world-systems:
  Southern East Asia and the dynamics of early Sinitic empire       204
  Formation of the East Asian world-system: From imperial network to a world-system?      205
  Beyond the frontier: the transformation of semi-periphery in southern East Asia and the dynamics of the Sinitic world-system       209
  
  Appendix 1: Origins of individuals in Qianling County      221
  Appendix 2: Grain ration records in Qianling County      227
  Ap pendix 3: Increase in the registered population of the southern commanderies between 2 CE and 156 CE 232
  Glossary of Chinese terms      234
  References       249
  Index      291
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