Hanshu Volume 95 The Southwest Peoples, Two Yues, and Chaoxian
Subtitle: Translation with Commentary
Publisher: Alex Amies
Published: 2020
Place of publication: California, United States
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780983334873
Copyright date: 2020
Description: A new translation of Volume 95 of the Hanshu, also known as the Book of Han, is provided along with commentary on the text and discussion. The present translation is given with aligned Chinese source text. Volume 95 is a 傳 zhuan ‘biography’ describing the 西南夷 Southwest peoples of present-day Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou; 兩粵 two Yues, Nanyue of present-day Guangdong, Guangxi, and Vietnam and Minyue of present-day Fujian, Jiangsu, and adjacent areas; and 朝鮮 Chaoxian in the Korean peninsula. A discussion of how the text relates to trade, transportation, and cultural exchange in Panyu, in the area of present-day Guangzhou, as the capital of Nanyue and administrative center of the Nanhai commandery is also given.
Table of contents: label: Abstract
title: 2; label: Forward
title: 3; label: Introduction
title: 4; label: The Hanshu
title: 5; label: Regional Administration and Titles
title: 8; label: Transportation, Trade, and Cultural Exchange
title: 11; label: Translation
title: 11; label: Southwest peoples
title: 11; label: Nanyue
title: 24; label: Minyue
title: 41; label: Chaoxian
title: 46; label: Abbreviations
title: 52; label: References
title: 52