Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE-50 CE

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On this innovative study, Erica Fox Brindley examines how, right through the period 400 BCE-50 CE, Chinese states and an embryonic Chinese empire interacted with peoples known as the Yue/Viet along its southern frontier. Brindley provides an overview of current theories in archaeology and linguistics regarding the peoples of the ancient southern frontier of China, the closest relations at the mainland to certain later Southeast Asian and Polynesian peoples. Through analysis of warring states and early Han textual sources, she shows how representations of Chinese and Yue identity invariably fed upon, and steadily grew out of, a two-way process of centering the self at the same time as de-centering the other. Examining rebellions, pivotal ruling figures from quite a lot of Yue states, and key moments of Yue agency, Brindley demonstrates the complexities all in favour of identity formation and cultural hybridization within the ancient world, and highlights the ancestry of cultures now associated with southern China and Vietnam.

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