... early medieval China migration mobility Northern Wei space Controlling the physical movement of people was a well-established tradition throughout imperial China. Scholars have argued that the Qin (221–206 BCE) and Han (206 BCE–220 CE) empires required their subjects to register personal...

...Kai-Yu Hsu An Anthology of Chinese Verse—Han, Wei, Chin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties . By J. D. Frodsham and Ch'eng Hsi (translators). Oxford : Clarendon , 1967 . xxxix, 198 pp. Table of Dynasties, Abbreviations of titles of works cited, Footnotes. $7.00. A Little...

...Benjamin E. Wallacker Abstract North China in a.d. 546 was the scene of a contest between two men, de facto rulers of the fractions of Northern Wei which had held the entire area for over one hundred fifty years but had been split in the middle of the previous decade. One of the two men, Kao Huan...

...Kenneth Ch'en Shina bukkyōshi kenkyū: Hokugi hen . (Researches on the history of Buddhism in China: the Northern Wei. By Tsukamoto Zenryū . Tokyo : 1942 . 654 , 28. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 96 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY In spite of the recognized...

..., history, function, and nature" (p. v) of northern Wei Loyang; the other a translation of the Lo-yang ch'ieh-lan chi (Record of the monasteries of Loyang) (Morohashi no. 17383-71, Chung-wen ta-tz'u-tien no. 17804.74) by Yang Hsuan-chih (Moro. no. 15112.523, CWTTT no. 15489.526). Encyclopedia references...

... kingdom and the localized practice of Buddhism. Chapter 4, Sinicization, focuses on the about two dozen niches dedicated between 494 and 504 at the Guyang Cave at Longmen, the earliest cave chapel at the site excavated immediately after the Northern Wei moved its capital from Datong to Luoyang in 494...

...-south and east-west dimensions of the city of Northern Wei Luoyang, the author nicknamed Luoyang as a "9:6 city." As ancient Japanese imperial cities were also elongated in a north-south direction, instead of a nearly square-shaped city like Tang Changan, and in most Japanese imperial cities the wards...

... even earlier, and a Northern Wei envoy went to Persia about the year 470. Recent archaeological discoveries have demonstrated the presence then of Persian embroideries, carpets, gems, coins, and other artifacts, and the Pei shih reports that the last emperor of Northern Wei was fond of riding...

... the perspective of its patrons and explores intersections between art, religion, and politics from the late fifth to the early eighth century (493–730). Because sponsorship was cut short after the political division of the Wei in 534, the period of greatest activity encompasses forty years under the Northern Wei...

...晉南北朝史講演錄 [Lectures on Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern dynasties] (Anhui: Huangshan shushe, 1987); Xiaofei Tian , Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2011 ) . While...

... sinicization, biologism (p. 180). The upper limit of Abe s book ends at the sixth century a precise moment when an indigenous visual language of Buddhist art much more independent of its Indian forebears emerged, and it is called the Northern Wei style (see Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from...

... and social and institutional change. Early in the century, the Northern and Southern states were each headed by great patrons of Buddhism, Empress Ling of the Northern Wei and Emperor Wu of Liang. The Northern Wei, after almost a century inpower, seemed to have integrated Chinese and non-Chinese social...

... Buddhism was radically transformed by the Chinese, and one is startled to find, for example, that the author quotes not one but two authorities in support of the "apparently well-founded view" that Buddhist images of the later Northern Wei period show a predominance of native Chinese artistic forms...

... dynasty ]. Tokyo : Jinbutsu Ōraisha . Mori Katsuzō . 1970 . “Hoku-Gi Rakukyojo no kobo ni tsuite” [On the planning of Northern Wei Luoyang] in his Tōyōgaku kenkyū—Rekishi chiri ban . Tokyo : Toyoshi Kenkyukai . Murata Jirö . 1981 . Chūgoku no teito [Chinese imperial cities]. Kyoto...

... of the first millennium. The main regional and temporal contexts for the discussion of trade are Northwest India under the Kushans; West India under the Shakas; all of North India under Gupta rule; Central Asian "ports of trade," and North China under the Northern Wei. Trade goods of Indian provenance in China...

..., the book under review may prove to be somewhat less useful than its Mandarin counterparts. University of California at Berkeley S0REN EGEROD Shina bukkyoshi kenkyu: Hokugi hen iJBPWHtftW^bSBJS (Researches on the history of Buddhism in China: the Northern Wei. By TSUKAMOTO ZENRYU « £ # ? & . Tokyo: 1942...

.... 134–169. 22 Edict of the Later Chao ruler Shih Hu, c. 335. See Wright , “Fo-t'u-têng, A Biography, HJAS XI ( 1948 ), 356 . 23 Miyakawa , p. 8 , cites the case from Wei shu, ch. 73, of a Northern Wei general who suffered remorse for the ferocious slaughters he...

... one. The sixth century was an era full of personal drama and social and institutional change. Early in the century, the Northern and Southern states were each headed by great patrons of Buddhism, Empress Ling of the Northern Wei and Emperor Wu of Liang. The Northern Wei, after almost a century inpower...

... as an historian of Chinese society. His publications in the fields of early Chinese astronomy and Chinese folklore, his daring and now substantiated thesis of the multiple origins of Chinese culture, his recent pioneer study of Northern Wei social structure, all testify to great learning and wide interests...