Read The Everlasting Empire Online
Authors: Yuri Pines
Tags: #General, #History, #Ancient, #Political Science, #Asia, #History & Theory, #China
Sacred Edict, the, 129 |
sage, 50; First Emperor as, 54–55; monarch as, 32–33, 45, 51–53, 68, 72, 85, 93, 98–100 |
sangha , 61 |
Scheidel, Walter, 186n15 |
Second Emperor of Qin ( , r. 209–207 BCE), 55 , 86 |
sects, 146–148, 151–152, 158, 193n33, 203–4n32. See also “millenarian rebels” |
“seed people” ( zhong min ), 147 |
Shambaugh, David, 164 |
Shang ( , ca. 1600–1046 BCE), 12, 4647, 50, 57, 137, 140, 187n2, 192n5, 202n5 |
Shang Yang ( , d. 338 BCE), 18, 132, 138 |
Shanxi Province, 11, 164 |
Shatuo ( ) Turks, 28 |
Shen Yue ( , 441–513), 42 |
shi ( ), 126, 142, 196n19; and Confucius, 78–80, 82–83; definition of, 76, 196n2; economic status of, 107, 199n6; as elite designation, 77–78; and government service, 80–85; ideological leadership of, 80–82; identity of, 78–79; as intellectuals, 16, 76–77; as lower nobility, 78; as an open stratum, 79–80; pride of, 7985; public-mindedness of, 76–77, 7980; rise of, 78–81; and the rulers, 8285; subjugation of, 85–88. See also intellectuals; literati, “superior men” |
Shusun Tong ( , fl. 210–190 BCE), 158 |
Sichuan Province, 11, 31, 157 |
Sima Guang ( , 1019–1086), 40, 57, 59, 116, 193n30. See also The Comprehensive Mirror to Aid the Government |
Sima Qian ( , ca. 145–90 BCE), 149, 197n46, 199n9 |
“Sinicization,” 69, 75 , 195n60 |
“sixteen prefectures,” 38–40 |
“Son of Heaven” ( tianzi ), 17, 19–20, 29, 35, 39, 44, 51, 56–57, 59 , 81, 187n4 |
Song dynasty ( , 960–1279), 132, 155; demise of, 41, 191n75; emperor’s power in, 65 , 71, 194n51; examinations in, 87, 92, 113–114, 199–200n22; foreign relations in, 39–41, 190n71, 191n74; and intellectuals, 40, 76, 91–93, 101, 200n24; and lineage activism, 118, 121, 200n35, 201n59; local elites in, 113119, 198–99n1; and reforms, 113–117, 120; unification by, 28, 31, 39. See also Neo-Confucianism; Northern Song dynasty; Southern Song dynasty; Wang Anshi; Zhu Xi |
Southern Song dynasty ( , 1127–1279), 117 |
Southern Tang dynasty ( , 937–975), 30–31, 35, 189n45, 190n60 |