The Way of the Barbarians - 9780295746029
The Way of the BarbariansRedrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China\nAuthor(s): Shao-yun Yang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295746029, 978-0295746029\nSynopsis\nShao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition [tel] CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, \""barbarism,\"" were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural .
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