Authors: Yuri Pines

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Uighurs, 27, 39, 188n35

unity, political, 1; and cultural, 102, 130; deterministic explanations of rejected, 11; and dynastic legitimacy, 20–21; as fundamental political desideratum, 3, 5, 11–12, 41–43, 46; and historiographic biases, 42; ideological justifications for, 17–19; and intellectual uniformity, 8587, 90–91; in modern age, 165–169, 182; and monarchism, 19, 44, 74; and nomads, 34, 36–41, 191n77; quest for, during the periods of disunion, 13, 15, 17–18, 29–30; sustainability of, 20–21, 25; territorial scope of, 32–37.
See also
All-under-Heaven; centralization; disintegration; multistate system; stability

Versailles Treaty (1919), 172

Vietnam, 36

violence, 135, 139; in conquest, 41; in Cultural Revolution, 179; in dynastic struggles, 12,
69;
by elites, 122; by government, 153; by rebels, 141, 143, 147, 150, 153–157, 204n49

-243-

Voltaire (1694–1778), 1

“voluntarism” of the literati, 113, 115, 117–118, 120, 122, 125–126, 129

Wang Anshi (

, 1021–1086), 92, 115–119, 125–126, 144, 197n43, 200n26

Wang Fuzhi (

, 1619–1692), 192n27

Wang Gungwu, 35, 190n38, 191n72

Wang Mang (

, 45 BCE-23 CE), emperor of Xin dynasty (r. 9–23 CE), 109110, 144, 199n12

warlords, 176, 205n8

Warring States period (Zhanguo

, 453–221 BCE), 28, 88, 90, 162; and the commoners, 137–139, 142–143; and elites, 106–107, 114, 116; intellectual fertility in, 3–4, 16, 42, 89; interstate relations in, 14–15; and local identities, 16–17; and market of talent, 81–85; and monarchism, 44, 48–51, 53, 64, 72, 93; and nomads, 33–34; reforms in, 1516, 48, 105–107, 132–133; and the
shi
, 78–84, 93; and quest for unity, 16–19, 21, 29, 32–33

The Water Margin
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Shuihu zhuan