A Fictitious Junwang: The Formation of the Nanyang Zhang Clan in Medieval China.
"Zhang" 张 is one of the most common surnames in China, with a large population that is widely distributed. In medieval China, there were a number of active sites of the surname's native place, or junwang 郡望, and Nanyang 南阳 was one of them. However, unlike the other Zhang clans' junwang, the Nanyang...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers of History in China Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 198 - 231 |
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Higher Education Press Limited Company
Jun2025
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