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Author(s):	D. Jonathan Felt

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0674251164
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The traditional Chinese notion of itself as the middle kingdomliterally the cultural and political center of the worldremains vital to its own self-perceptions and became foundational to Western understandings of China. This worldview was primarily constructed during the earliest imperial unification of China during the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE220 CE). But the fragmentation of empire and subsequent Age of Disunion (220589 CE) that followed undermined imperial orthodoxies of unity, centrality, and universality. In response, geographical writing proliferated, exploring greater spatial complexities and alternative worldviews.

This book is the first study of the emergent genre of geographical writing and the metageographies that structured its spatial thought during that period. Early medieval geographies highlighted spatial units and structures that the QinHan empire had intentionally sought to obscureincluding those of regional, natural, and foreign spaces. Instead, these postimperial metageographies reveal a polycentric China in a polycentric world. SuiTang (581906 CE) officials reasserted the imperial model as spatial orthodoxy. But since that time these alternative frameworks have persisted in geographical thought, continuing to illuminate spatial complexities that have been incompatible with the imperial and nationalist ideal of a monolithic China at the center of the world.
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