The way of the barbarians : redrawing ethnic boundaries in Tang and Song China /

The Way of the Barbarians examines a critical period in the development of conceptions of Chinese identity and of foreignness. After tracing thought about culture, customs, ritual and ethnicity to BCE classical texts, Shao-yun Yang focuses on the meaning and boundaries of Chineseness during the Tang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang, Shao-yun (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Han Yu, the Annals, and the origins of ethnicized orthodoxy
  • Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, and the debate over Buddhism and barbarism
  • Ethnocentric moralism in two Late Tang essays
  • Ethnicized orthodoxy in the Northern Song guwen revival
  • Ideas of barbarization in eleventh-century Annals Exegesis
  • Chineseness and barbarism in early Daoxue philosophy.