A Prince of Martial Splendour in the Sixteen Kingdoms: Li Hao (351-417), Ruler of Western Liang

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71643-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 171, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

The Sixteen Kingdoms (304-439) saw Northern China become a multiethnic mosaic of states and statelets, one of which was Western Liang (400-422) in modern Gansu province at the edge of the Silk Roads. Its founder Li Hao was a Han settler on soil only recently annexed to the Empire. Here, immigrants ruled semi-nomadic locals, while elsewhere, non-Chinese ruling houses dealt with local Chinese elites. Their interaction, here seen close up in the life and times of Li Hao, had a lasting formative influence on Chinese culture and society for centuries to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Declercq, Dominik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Maps

1 Introduction

2 The Hexi Corridor

3 The Colonisation of Liangzhou, 100 BCE to 300 CE

4 Former Liang (320–376): Li Hao’s Forebears under the Former Liang

5 Former Qin (351–384) and Later Liang (385–403)

6 Linked Destinies: Li Hao and Juqu Mengxun

7 Building a State, Part 1: Li Hao’s Western Liang

8 Building a State, Part 2: Juqu Mengxun’s Northern Liang

9 Relations with Eastern Jin

10 Li Hao Moves to Jiuquan

11 Li Hao’s Last Years

12 The Sequel: Li Hao’s Son Loses Western Liang

13 The Aftermath, and Conclusions

Appendix 1: Commandant Protectors of the Qiang

Appendix 2: Prefects of Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Dominik Declercq (Ph.D. Leiden, 1993) is an independent scholar who has lived and worked in China for nearly 40 years. He is the author of Writing against the State: Political Rhetorics in Third and Fourth Century China (Brill, 1998).