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Early Chinese Empires and the People without History: Resistance, Agency and Identity of Ancient Colonial Sichuan.

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Title/Author:	Early Chinese Empires and the People without History: Resistance, Agency and Identity of Ancient Colonial Sichuan./
Author:	Hu, Chuan-an.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	280 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-09A.
Subject:	Archaeology. -
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ISBN:	9798582595335

Early Chinese Empires and the People without History: Resistance, Agency and Identity of Ancient Colonial Sichuan.
Hu, Chuan-an.

Early Chinese Empires and the People without History: Resistance, Agency and Identity of Ancient Colonial Sichuan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 280 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2017.

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Early Chinese Empires were colonial regimes. The major aim of my dissertation is to elaborate on previous interpretations of cultural change and to highlight the negotiation of identity between imperial and local agents in a colonial context. Colonial encounters not only have occurred in modern times, but also in early Imperial China. The state of Qin (778 BC-221 BC) conquered the entire land of Sichuan (316 BC). This region may well have been Qin's first colony before it finally unified China and created an empire (221 BC). Forceful military acquisitions of the land and the construction of a colonial landscape reshaped the indigenous cultures. The adoption of the metropolitan cultures (traditionally recognized as "sinicization") continued for more than five hundred years.In the past, historians have tended to view cultural change under Qin and Han colonial rule as a normative process, by which the superior metropolitan cultures were passively accepted by the "naturally" inferior, local peoples of ancient Sichuan. However, the society of ancient colonial Sichuan was dynamic, composed of complex interactions among mobile individuals and groups. Local and metropolitan identities emerged nearly simultaneously. Micro and macro identities developed in close relationship with each other and were mutually constitutive. The peoples in ancient Sichuan were not merely "sinicized," but rather that they often played an active role in constructing their local cultural identities within greater imperial world.Studies of ancient China often take cultural contact as monolithic and portray China as a state/empire with a monotonic voice. This dissertation seeks to deconstruct the Sino-centric identity through the investigation of the contact between China and her neighbor, ancient Sichuan. I see the cultural contacts as a set of diversified, uneven and heterogeneous interactions, rather than a one-way process. This dissertation deploys an interdisciplinary approach to address this question and to produce a critical synthesis based on the methods of history and archaeology; it analyzes textual sources in the form of standard histories, local histories and inscriptional evidence; and material cultures from burials and other sites. These approaches are well integrated with each other and will be used in both macro and micro contexts. Several expressions of identity are examined including local intellectual agency, ritual practice, and the compilation of local history.

ISBN: 9798582595335Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Archaeology.
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Sichuan

Early Chinese Empires and the People without History: Resistance, Agency and Identity of Ancient Colonial Sichuan.
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520 $a Les premiers empires chinois etaient des regimes coloniaux. L'objet principal de ma these repose d'une part sur l'approfondissement des interpretations precedentes relatives aux modifications culturelles et d'autre part sur la mise en lumiere des negociations d'identites entre les agents imperiaux et les autochtones dans un contexte colonial. La colonisation n'a pas uniquement eu lieu pendant les temps modernes, elle existait deja au debut de la Chine imperiale. La conquete de l'ensemble de Sichuan par l'Etat de Qin (778 av. J.-C. - 221 av. J.-C.) a lieu en 316 av. J.-C. Cette region est peut-etre bien la premiere colonie de Qin, avant l'unification de la Chine et la creation d'un empire (221 av. J.-C.). Ce sont ces violentes acquisitions militaires de terres et la construction d'un paysage colonial qui ont redessine les cultures autochtones. L'adoption des cultures metropolitaines (traditionnellement appelee « sinisation ») se poursuit ensuite pendant plus de cinq cents ans.Les historiens avaient autrefois tendance a dater la modification culturelle a l'epoque des lois coloniales de Qin et Han et a les considerer comme un processus de normalisation. Les peuples autochtones de Sichuan, « naturellement » inferieurs, auraient passivement accepte les cultures metropolitaines superieures. La societe de l'ancien Sichuan colonial etait dynamique, composee d'interactions complexes entre les groupes et les individus mobiles. Les identites locales et metropolitaines sont nees presque simultanement. Les micro- et macro- identites se sont developpees en etroite liaison les unes avec avec les autres et ont ete mutuellement constitutives. La conclusion de ma these tend a prouver que les peuples de l'ancien Sichuan n'etaient pas simplement « sinises », mais plutot qu'ils ont souvent joue un role actif dans la construction de leurs propres identites culturelles au sein du plus grand monde imperial.Les etudes sur la Chine ancienne considerent souvent le contact culturel de facon monolithique, et brossent un portrait de la Chine comme un etat/empire avec une voix monotone. Cette these cherche a deconstruire l'identite sino-centrique en explorant le contact entre la Chine et son voisin, l'ancien Sichuan. Je concois les contacts culturels comme etant un ensemble d'interactions diversifiees, irregulieres et heterogenes plutot que comme un procede a sens unique. Cette these deploie une approche interdisciplinaire permettant d'approfondir cette issue et d'aboutir a une synthese critique en se basant sur l'histoire et l'archeologie ; elle analyse les sources textuelles, les comptes rendus historiques, les histoires locales et les preuves epigraphiques ainsi que la culture materielle retrouvee dans les sepultures et dans d'autres sites. Ces approches s'integrent bien les unes aux autres et seront utilisees aussi bien dans le contexte general que dans le contexte particulier. Plusieurs expressions d'identites seront examinees, dont l'institution intellectuelle locale, la pratique rituelle et la compilation de l'histoire locale.
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