Fabricating Legitimacy in a Peripheral Regime: Imperial Loyalism and Regionalism in the Northwestern Borderlands Under the Rule of the Former Liang (301-376)

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 0 ASIAN STUDIES Early Medieval China Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI:10.1080/15299104.2018.1493829
W. Tse
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The fall of the Western Jin empire (265–316) in the early fourth century gave rise to unusually complex issues of political legitimacy, allegiance, and identity. In the ensuing turmoil, a cluster of regional polities emerged in north China, among which the Former Liang kingdom (301–376) ruled by the Zhang family provides an intriguing case of study. The rulers of this northwestern frontier state made use of the Jin official titles they held to project the image of being Jin loyalists as a means to amass support from former Jin subjects. At the same time, the Zhangs capitalized on the long distance between them and the Jin imperial court-in-exile in the lower Yangzi region, and the centrifugal political trends to create a fait accompli on their own terms of maintaining their dynastic rule in the northwest. To pursue its own survival, the Former Liang compromised with the so-called barbarian states, which were the instigators of toppling the Western Jin state. The political legitimacy and diplomatic stance of this frontier regime thus oscillated between imperial loyalism and regionalism. Analyzing how the Former Liang played such a complex game and sought regional advantage under the guise of imperial loyalty, this paper provides a case study of the strategy of “layered legitimacy” employed by a peripheral regime in early medieval China.
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外围政权中的合法性建构:前梁统治下西北边疆的帝国主义与地区主义(301-376)
公元4世纪初,西晋帝国(265-316)的灭亡引发了政治合法性、效忠和身份认同等异常复杂的问题。在随后的动乱中,中国北方出现了一系列地区政治,其中由张氏家族统治的前梁国(301-376)提供了一个有趣的研究案例。这个西北边陲国家的统治者利用他们所拥有的金国官衔来树立效忠金国的形象,以此来争取前金国臣民的支持。与此同时,张氏利用其与下扬子地区的金朝廷之间的遥远距离,以及离心式的政治趋势,制造了一个符合他们自己条件的既成事实,以维持他们在西北的王朝统治。为了自己的生存,前梁与所谓的野蛮国家妥协,这些国家是推翻西晋的煽动者。因此,这个边疆政权的政治合法性和外交立场在帝国忠诚主义和地区主义之间摇摆不定。本文分析了前梁朝如何在帝国忠诚的幌子下进行这样一场复杂的博弈,并寻求地区优势,并提供了中世纪早期中国一个外围政权所采用的“分层合法性”策略的案例研究。
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