A Prince of Martial Splendour in the Sixteen Kingdoms: Li Hao (351-417), Ruler of Western Liang

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71643-8 (ISBN)

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The Fifth Century CE, Western Liang, at the edge of the Silk Roads, where the interaction between local Chinese elites and non-Chinese ruling houses, seen close up in the life and times of Li Hao, had a lasting formative influence on Chinese culture and society for centuries to come.

The Sixteen Kingdoms (304-439) saw Northern China become a multiethnic mosaic of states and statelets, one of which was Western Liang (400-422) in modern Gansu province at the edge of the Silk Roads. Its founder Li Hao was a Han settler on soil only recently annexed to the Empire. Here, immigrants ruled semi-nomadic locals, while elsewhere, non-Chinese ruling houses dealt with local Chinese elites. Their interaction, here seen close up in the life and times of Li Hao, had a lasting formative influence on Chinese culture and society for centuries to come.

Dominik Declercq (Ph.D. Leiden, 1993) is an independent scholar who has lived and worked in China for nearly 40 years. He is the author of Writing against the State: Political Rhetorics in Third and Fourth Century China (Brill, 1998).

Preface

Maps

1 Introduction

2 The Hexi Corridor

3 The Colonisation of Liangzhou, 100 BCE to 300 CE

4 Former Liang (320–376): Li Hao’s Forebears under the Former Liang

5 Former Qin (351–384) and Later Liang (385–403)

6 Linked Destinies: Li Hao and Juqu Mengxun

7 Building a State, Part 1: Li Hao’s Western Liang

8 Building a State, Part 2: Juqu Mengxun’s Northern Liang

9 Relations with Eastern Jin

10 Li Hao Moves to Jiuquan

11 Li Hao’s Last Years

12 The Sequel: Li Hao’s Son Loses Western Liang

13 The Aftermath, and Conclusions

Appendix 1: Commandant Protectors of the Qiang

Appendix 2: Prefects of Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang

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Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Sinica Leidensia ; 171
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	488 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-71643-2 / 9004716432
ISBN-13	978-90-04-71643-8 / 9789004716438
Zustand	Neuware