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E-book The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China : Indigenous Bai Yue and Their Oceanic Dispersal

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This book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic con-nectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient indigenousBai Yue(??) in themaritime region of southeast China and Southeast Asia. It is compiled with anumber of different theses which have been successively published in Chinesejournals in the last 20 years focusing on the indigenousBai Yueculture duringprehistory and early Chinese history.In this maritime Frontier of China, Chinese historical documents demonstrate thedevelopment of the“barbarian”Bai YueandIsland Yi(??) and their culturalinteraction with the northernHuaxia(??) in early Chinese civilization within thegeopolitical order of the“CentralHuaxia- Peripheral Barbarians”. Part I of thisbook“Historical Records of the BarbarianBai YueandIsland Yion the SoutheastFrontier of Ancient Chinese Civilization”includes Chaps.1and2, analyzing thecultural change of the indigenous ethnicitiesBai YueandIsland Yiin the southeastin the vision and discourse ofHuaxiaand its successorHan(?) nationality inCentral Plains. Chapter1the“Central Nation-Peripheral Barbarians in FourDirections-Four Seas: The Geopolitical Order of Land-Sea Interactions of EarlyChinese Civilization”, focuses on the cultural interaction between the maritimeregion of southeastern China and the continental agricultural region of CentralPlains in northern China. Chapter2the“Southeastern Peripheries ofHuaxia: TheHistorical-Cultural Interaction and Assimilation fromSouthern ManandBai YueofMainland toIsland YiandMaritime Fan”, traces back the process of the“Huaxianization”(???) and“sinicization”(??) of the southeastern indige-nous ethnicities pushed forward by the Central Nation.Part II“The Archaeological Exploration on the Prehistoric Cultures in theMaritime Region of Southeastern Asia”reveals a unique cultural tradition ofsoutheast coast of China, mainly by the typological study on the prehistoric materialcultural heritages. Chapter3“The Indigenous Paleolithic Cultural Inheritance in theMaritime Region of Southeastern Asia during the Early Neolithization around10,000 Years Ago”, discusses that the indigenous population of the“MaritimeRegion of Southeastern Asia”, including Austronesian, dominantly originated fromthe local Paleolithic culture and continuing to early Neolithization across this border region, rather than Neolithic farmers immigrating from north to south.Chapter4“The Spatial Variants and Temporal Sequence of the Indigenous CulturalSystem of Southeast China During Neolithic, Bronze and Early Iron Ages”, furtherstudies the material culture dating from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age, provingthe stability and resilience of the indigenous cultures even with the pressure ofmigratory expansion ofHuaxiaandHanfrom north to south.Part III“The Ethnographical Investigation of the Maritime Cultural Heritagesof the IndigenousBai Yuein Southeast of China”, carries out a series of ethno-graphical investigations of aboriginal heritage, highlighting the native maritimecultural features including maritime characteristics, seafaring technology, as well astheir historical relationship with Austronesian and other foreign maritime ethnicities.Chapter5“The Inheritance ofIsland Yiand the Acculturation ofMaritime Fan(??)in theHanPeople on Southeast Coast of China”, discusses the origin of the uniquemaritime characteristics ofHannationality in southeastern coast of China who pro-moted the formation of the ancient Maritime Silk Road across the South China Seaand the Indian Ocean. This study confirms the importance of both the inheritance andassimilation of the indigenous barbarianIsland YiofBai Yueculture in prehistory,and the acculturation of the series immigrated ethnicities of foreignMaritime Fansince the medieval China. Chapter6the“Ethno-archaeological Investigation to the‘Straw and Bark-Woven Clothing’ofIsland YiandSouthern Manin South of Chinaand Southeast Asia”, investigates the historical, ethnographical, and archaeologicalheritages of the distinctive non-woven bark cloth cultures distributing in the maritimeregion of Asia-Pacific, further depicting the prehistoric cultural interaction betweenBai Yueand theAustronesian. Chapter7the“Searching for the Prehistoric SeafaringCraft between Southeast Coast of China and the Pacific Islands”, compares a numberof ethnographical and archaeological heritages of the double-hulled“Fang Zhou”(??) and the outrigger“Mother-Son Boat”(???) discovered in southeast of China,with the seaworthy canoes of the Pacific, presenting a new clue for understanding theprehistoric seafaring craft of theBai YueandProto-Austronesian. Chapter8“AComparative Study of the Astronomical Navigation between Ancient China andPacific Austronesian”is another comparative study on the astronomical navigation of“star-observation”and“star-measuring”used by both the local seamen in southChina and the Austronesian navigators in the Pacific, revealing their close culturalconnection over the Asia-Pacific oceans.

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930.1 CHU t

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Singapore : Springer Nature., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

275 hlm

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English

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9789811640797

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930.1

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Archaeology

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