This paper aims to show that conveying political ideas in spatial terms is an important and distinctive feature of ancient Chinese political thought. After a brief survey of the fundamental principles of ancient Chinese concepts of terrestrial space, the author examines two spatial schematic representations of the Seven Mighty Kingdoms of the Warring States period (403-222 B.C.). Comparative analysis provides a good illustration of how representing a set of kingdoms as a combination of cardinally-oriented « positions » served as an instrument to establish a sophisticated system of relationships between these kingdoms. Such a system, and, consequently, the expressed political concept, change dramatically with alterations in the relative « po...
The Chinese people developed a dynamic and rich civilization at the eastern end of Eurasia. Geograph...
The Chinese, Indian and Myanmar governments share the borderlands in the corners of their respective...
This thesis examines the statecraft thought of one particularly important scholar-official, Qiu Jun ...
This paper aims to show that conveying political ideas in spatial terms is an important and distinct...
La thèse concerne l’histoire de la géographie en Chine ancienne et médiévale. En nous concentrant su...
This paper makes use of an old chronicle to study the spatial interaction between the statelets of a...
The thesis examines the emergence of geographical knowledge in Early and Early Medieval China, by fo...
Territorial Planning and the Notion of Border in Ancient Times The ancient texts show the link betw...
Historians of cartography have recently expressed a greater interest in the relationship between map...
This chapter analyses geographic concepts and ideas, and their influence on concrete actions in Ming...
In ancient China, as elsewhere, states did not simply occupy a given territory but actively engaged ...
The Aristocratic Families, which had both political and economic privileges in early Imperial Ages o...
This thesis seeks to examine the hypothesis that states that social organization is based on discern...
« Position » in state ceremonial in late Imperial China Marked on the ground or recorded in illustra...
Regions: at the heart of Chinese history.— G.W. Skinner's spatial approach of Chinese history, in hi...
The Chinese people developed a dynamic and rich civilization at the eastern end of Eurasia. Geograph...
The Chinese, Indian and Myanmar governments share the borderlands in the corners of their respective...
This thesis examines the statecraft thought of one particularly important scholar-official, Qiu Jun ...
This paper aims to show that conveying political ideas in spatial terms is an important and distinct...
La thèse concerne l’histoire de la géographie en Chine ancienne et médiévale. En nous concentrant su...
This paper makes use of an old chronicle to study the spatial interaction between the statelets of a...
The thesis examines the emergence of geographical knowledge in Early and Early Medieval China, by fo...
Territorial Planning and the Notion of Border in Ancient Times The ancient texts show the link betw...
Historians of cartography have recently expressed a greater interest in the relationship between map...
This chapter analyses geographic concepts and ideas, and their influence on concrete actions in Ming...
In ancient China, as elsewhere, states did not simply occupy a given territory but actively engaged ...
The Aristocratic Families, which had both political and economic privileges in early Imperial Ages o...
This thesis seeks to examine the hypothesis that states that social organization is based on discern...
« Position » in state ceremonial in late Imperial China Marked on the ground or recorded in illustra...
Regions: at the heart of Chinese history.— G.W. Skinner's spatial approach of Chinese history, in hi...
The Chinese people developed a dynamic and rich civilization at the eastern end of Eurasia. Geograph...
The Chinese, Indian and Myanmar governments share the borderlands in the corners of their respective...
This thesis examines the statecraft thought of one particularly important scholar-official, Qiu Jun ...