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Origins, Ancestors, and Imperial Authority in Early Northern Wei Historiography |
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Duthie, Nina Natasha (撰)
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| Date | 2015 |
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| Pages | 190 |
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| Publisher | Columbia University |
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https://www.columbia.edu/
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| Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Degree | doctor |
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| Institution | Columbia University |
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| Department | East Asian Languages and Cultures |
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| Advisor | Hymes, Robert |
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| Publication year | 2015 |
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| Keyword | Genealogy; Emperors; History; East Asian literature |
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| Abstract | In this dissertation, I explore Wei shu historiography on the early Northern Wei imperial state, which was founded by the Tuoba Xianbei in the late fourth century C.E. In examining the Wei shu narrative of the Northern Wei founding, I illuminate not only the representation of cultural and imperial authority in the reigns of the early Northern Wei emperors, but also investigate historiography on the pre-imperial Tuoba past. I argue that the Wei shu narrative of Tuoba origins and ancestors is constructed from the perspective of the moment of the Northern Wei founding. Or, to view it the other way around, the founding of the Northern Wei imperial state by Tuoba Gui signifies the culmination of the Wei shu narrative on the early Tuoba.
This narrative of the early Tuoba past is of course teleological: Essentially everything in this phase of Tuoba historiography leads up to the moment of the Northern Wei imperial founding, including genealogical descent from a son of Huangdi, who is represented as the Xianbei progenitor, in a remote northern wilderness; the continuous succession of Tuoba rulers that followed; and the journeys that brought the Tuoba out of the wilderness and toward the geographical center.
In focusing on the account of the inaugural reign of Tuoba Gui, the Northern Wei founder, and the record of his ritual practice as emperor, I have discovered tensions in Wei shu historiography that I believe signal toward some of the actual cultural contestation that attended the founding of the Northern Wei imperial state. The Wei shu historiography on Buddhism in the early Northern Wei then, I argue, presents an alternative source of authority, one that stands outside both an imperial Han inheritance and a culturally Tuoba tradition. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 1
Part I
Chapter 1: Origins and Cultural Authority:
Ethnography and Historiography on the Early Xianbei 16
Part II
Prologue: Other Origins of the Tuoba Xianbei 54
Chapter 2: Early Tuoba Imperial Ancestors and Territorial Migrations 66
Chapter 3: Ritual and Imperial Authority in the Founding of the Northern Wei 101
Chapter 4: Imperial Authority and Buddhism in the Early Northern Wei 144
Epilogue 177
Bibliography 184
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8NC601F |
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| Hits | 717 |
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| Created date | 2021.12.13 |
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| Modified date | 2021.12.13 |
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