WHAT'S IN A NAME? ON THE APPELLATIVE 'SHU' IN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINESE HISTORIOGRAPHY.
Examines the various names applied to Liu Bei's state, known in later history as Shu or Shu Han, by the state itself, its contemporaries and historians of medieval Chinese historiography. Textual evidence that Liu Bei's state referred to itself as Han; Use of several different appellatives for Shu...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 121; no. 1; pp. 44 - 60 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Jan-Mar2001
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