The Spatial Narrative of the"Great Unification"of the Tang Dynasty:A Study Based on Section of Geography:The New Book of the Tang Dynasty
The"Great Unification"is one of the important issues in the Chinese academia.There are few studies to interpret the history of the"Great Unification of the Tang dynasty"from the perspective of spatial narrative while the existing research on the"Great Unifi-cation"of the Tang dynasty is mainly carried out from the perspective of intellectual history.The detailed records of Section of Geogra-phy:The New Book of the Tang Dynasty on the territorial scope,transportation and roads,the number of households and population,and the history of political districts provide a spatial observation-based approach and a documentary basis for us to explain the"Great Unification"of the Tang dynasty.The spatial structure of"prefectures and counties-Jimi Prefectures-cultural frontier"of the Tang dynasty not only changed the spatial narrative of the"Great Unification"since the Qin and Han dynasties,but also in the concrete practice,the"Great Unification"formed in the Tang dynasty was an overall narrative bridging the central government and the local gov-ernments,connecting the central region and the border regions as well as covering the Chinese territory and the extra-territorial world.It is the spatial narrative based on the"Great Unification"that gives the Chinese territory a stability that transcends the specific dynas-ties and becomes one of the important elements in the narrative system of the modern Chinese territory.
Section of GeographyThe New Book of the Tang Dynastyspatial narrativeTang dynasty"Great Unification"
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