Read The Everlasting Empire Online
Authors: Yuri Pines
Tags: #General, #History, #Ancient, #Political Science, #Asia, #History & Theory, #China
Uighurs, 27, 39, 188n35 |
unity, political, 1; and cultural, 102, 130; deterministic explanations of rejected, 11; and dynastic legitimacy, 20–21; as fundamental political desideratum, 3, 5, 11–12, 41–43, 46; and historiographic biases, 42; ideological justifications for, 17–19; and intellectual uniformity, 8587, 90–91; in modern age, 165–169, 182; and monarchism, 19, 44, 74; and nomads, 34, 36–41, 191n77; quest for, during the periods of disunion, 13, 15, 17–18, 29–30; sustainability of, 20–21, 25; territorial scope of, 32–37. See also All-under-Heaven; centralization; disintegration; multistate system; stability |
Versailles Treaty (1919), 172 |
Vietnam, 36 |
violence, 135, 139; in conquest, 41; in Cultural Revolution, 179; in dynastic struggles, 12, 69; by elites, 122; by government, 153; by rebels, 141, 143, 147, 150, 153–157, 204n49 |
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Voltaire (1694–1778), 1 |
“voluntarism” of the literati, 113, 115, 117–118, 120, 122, 125–126, 129 |
Wang Anshi ( |
Wang Fuzhi ( |
Wang Gungwu, 35, 190n38, 191n72 |
Wang Mang ( |
warlords, 176, 205n8 |
Warring States period (Zhanguo shi , 78–84, 93; and quest for unity, 16–19, 21, 29, 32–33 |
The Water Margin ( Shuihu zhuan |
The Way ( Dao 95 , 97, 99–100, 171; in the Laozi , 17; and Neo-Confucianism, 118 |
Wei ( |
Wei ( |
Wei ( |
Wei Xuan ( |
Wei Zhongxian ( 99 |
Western Jin dynasty ( See also Jin dynasty |
Western Zhou ( |