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The traditional Chinese notion of itself as the “middle kingdom”—literally the cultural and political center of the world—remains vital to its own self-perceptions and became foundational to Western understandings of China. This worldview was primarily constructed during the earliest imperial unification of China during the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE). But the fragmentation of empire and subsequent “Age of Disunion” (220–589 CE) that followed undermined imperial orthodoxies of unity,

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Author

David Jonathan Felt

Publisher

London : Harvard University Asia Center

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781684176441

Category

science

Subjects

History, Sociology, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-25