7.6: Sources

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¹ This anecdote courtesy of Tom Manazec. From Song biographies of eminent monks 宋高僧傳, T no. 2061, 50:743c.

² Anderson, The East Asian World-System: Climate and Dynastic Change, 81-5.

³ Hong, “Yayoi Wave, Kofun Wave, and Timing.”

⁴ Much of this section is based on Wright, The Sui Dynasty.

⁵ Ebrey, Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 98-104.

⁶ Lewis, China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: the Tang Dynasty, 215-17.

⁷ The gifts were: two different carriages and teams of black horses, a hat and a robe with a red belt, musical instruments and dancers for ancestral ritual, for his house red doors and a staircase, three hundred bodyguards, two different axes, one red bow and ten black bows with 100 matching arrows each, and a jade cup full of millet ale. Wright, The Sui Dynasty, 112.

⁸ Much of this section is based on Wright, The Sui Dynasty.

9 Marc Abramson, Ethnic Identity in Tang China (2008), quoted in Clark, “What’s the Matter with ‘China’? A Critique of Teleological History,” 309.

¹⁰ Eisenberg, Kingship in Early Medieval China, 247

¹¹Eisenberg, Kingship in Early Medieval China, 239ff.

¹² Habuta, “Japan-Korea Interaction Viewed from Eastern Japan,” 408.

¹³ This section is based on Totman, A History of Japan and Holcombe, A History of East Asia.

¹⁴ Byington, The Ancient State of Puyŏ, 302.

¹⁵ For this section see among others Kirkland, “The Sun and the Throne.”

¹⁶ Elverskog, The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia

¹⁷ Totman, A History of Japan.

¹⁸ Qingfei Nie, Ordering the Urban Space in Luoyang, 600–1000 CE.

¹⁹ Moran, “The Gilding of Ancient Bronze Statues in Japan.” Barbieri-Low, Artisans in Early Imperial China, 16.

²⁰ Kim Youn-mi, New Perspectives on Early Korean Art, chapter 3.

²¹ King Munmu’s funerary stone inscription survives, although it is damaged, and with some other data was used in a documentary by the Korean Broadcasting Service in 2008 to suggest that the royal Kim family of Silla were descended from the Xiongnu. McBride, “Making and Remaking Silla Origins,” 531.

²² Kim, “Buddhism and the State,” 110-111.

²³ Adshead, T’ang China, 45.

²⁴ Qingfei Nie, Ordering the Urban Space in Luoyang, 600–1000 CE.

25 Barrett, The Woman who Discovered Printing. To see how wood-block printed books are made, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57rUeCHoXg

²⁶ This section is based mainly on Rothschild, Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor.