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The Sixteen Kingdoms (304-439) saw Northern China become a multiethnic mosaic of states and statelets, one of which was Western Liang (400-422) in modern Gansu province at the edge of the Silk Roads. Its founder Li Hao was a Han settler on soil only recently annexed to the Empire. Here, immigrants ruled semi-nomadic locals, while elsewhere, non-Chinese ruling houses dealt with local Chinese elites. Their interaction, here seen close up in the life and times of Li Hao, had a lasting formative influence on Chinese culture and society for centuries to come.
Price: $114.00
Pages: 208
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Sinica Leidensia
Publication Date:
30 January 2025
ISBN: 9789004716438
Format: Hardcover
"A Prince of Martial Splendour is a rich and remarkable work that will surely inspire future research on this little understood and critically understudied period in Chinese history. In sum, Dominik Declercq has done us a great service with his new book, and I will return to it again
and again."- Stephanie Balkwill, Journal of Chinese History (2025) doi:10.1017/jch.2025.10060.
Dominik Declercq (Ph.D. Leiden, 1993) is an independent scholar who has lived and worked in China for nearly 40 years. He is the author of Writing against the State: Political Rhetorics in Third and Fourth Century China (Brill, 1998).