IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1719: Being Imperial in the East, II: Frontiers, Groups, and Centres in East Asian Empire
Thursday 10 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Geoffrey Humble, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham / ERC Project 'Mobility, Empire & Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia', Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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Moderator/Chair: | Francesca Fiaschetti, European Research Council Project 'Mobility, Empire & Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia', Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Paper 1719-a | Frontier Monasteries in the Liao and Jin Empires: Regularizing State Regulation of Religious Institutions in Medieval North China (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Monasticism |
Paper 1719-b | Accounts of Perfection in a Flawed World: 13th-Century Chinese Literati and Quanzhen Taoism (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Philosophy, Political Thought |
Paper 1719-c | Being Demoted or Being Tamed?: Scholars, Relocation, and Imperial Discipline in Tang China (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Education |
Paper 1719-d | Textual and Oral Canon in China's First Military Encyclopedia (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Mentalities, Military History, Social History |
Abstract | While drawing on apparently monolithic Confucian imagery, East Asian empires nonetheless negotiated complex registers of group identities. Jesse D. Sloane analyzes the evolving importance of frontier religious institutions to successive Liao, Jin and Mongol empires in northern China. Examining exile postings of scholar-officials during the Tang dynasty, Michael Höckelmann demonstrates the centrality of the peripheral to the court management of the literati elite. Mark Halperin's reading of Yuan Haowen's (1190-1257) attempts to balance ideological concerns over the Taoist Quanzhen movement with his personal reaction to its charisma and mystery exposes tensions in defining 'Chinese' norms at a time of crisis. Marcia A. Butler examines three middle-era military encyclopedias, arguing that these represent the Song dynasty's (960-1279) effort to consolidate central control. |