The Nomadic Leviathan

Devised to legitimize the Republic of China’s claim over Inner Asia, the Sinocentric paradigm stems from the Open Door Policy and Chinese nationalism. Advanced against the conquest theory, and rationalized as the pathfinding ecological theory, it is an evolutionary materialist scheme that became the vision of history.

Exposing the initial agenda of this paradigm and revealing i...

(展开全部)

Devised to legitimize the Republic of China’s claim over Inner Asia, the Sinocentric paradigm stems from the Open Door Policy and Chinese nationalism. Advanced against the conquest theory, and rationalized as the pathfinding ecological theory, it is an evolutionary materialist scheme that became the vision of history.

Exposing the initial agenda of this paradigm and revealing its fundamental contradictions, The Nomadic Leviathan debunks it as a myth. Resurrecting the conquest theory, and reinforcing it with the idea of extrahuman transportation, this book places pastoralism at the origin of the state and civilization, and the Eurasian steppe at the center of human history; the political emerges as the primary and fundamental order defining the social and economic.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
0.1The Aim, Scope, and Method
0.2The Sinocentric Paradigm and the Great Anomaly
· · · · · · (更多)

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
0.1The Aim, Scope, and Method
0.2The Sinocentric Paradigm and the Great Anomaly
0.3The Pseudo-Weberian Theory
0.4The Origin of the Sinocentric Paradigm: Twisting Materialism and Redefining Evolution
0.5A Retrospective Rationalization
0.6The Nomadic Leviathan
0.7The Organization of This Book
1 The Habit of Thought
1.1Leviathan and Zomia: Environmental History
1.2The Pan-Eurasian Pattern
1.3The Origin of the Great Anomaly
1.4The Chinese Empire and Its Northern Variant
1.5The Sinocentric Paradigm: The Vision and the Division
2 The State before the Sinocentric Paradigm
2.1The State: The Battle of the Idealistic and Materialistic Conceptions of History
2.2The Conquest Theory and Its Materialistic Opponent
2.3The Nomadic Conquest: The Political Means
2.4The Weberian Separation: The State and the Political
2.5The Rise of the State: The Charismatic Conquest
2.6Legal Authority and Bureaucracy: The Rechtsstaat
3 Inner Asia before the Sinocentric Paradigm
3.1The Theory of Nomadic Feudalism: The Ancient Military Feudal Regime
3.2The Theory of Nomadic Civilization
3.3The Theory of Inner Asian Empires over China
3.4The Nomadic Political Order: Warlords and Warbands
4 The Sinocentric Scheme: Aim, Origins, and Theory
4.1Integrating China and Its Inner Asian Hinterland
4.2From Legal to Historical Fiction: The Chinese Empire
4.3Peopling Inner Asia: The Creation of a Barbarian Plague
4.4Redefining Evolution: The Environmental Theory of Political Organization
4.5The Scheme: Evolutionary and Anti-evolutionary Societies
4.6The Chinese Dynastic Cycle: Appropriating Inner Asian Empires
4.7The Chinese Absorptive Empire: Domesticating Inner Asian Empires
4.8The Cycle of Nomadic Political Power: Historical Geography Undermined
4.9Rejecting Nomadic Feudalism: Redressing, Redefining, and Selecting
5 Kinship Turn and Evolutionary Schemes
5.1The Triumph of the Sinocentric Scheme
5.2African Political Systems: Administrative Pyramid and Kinship Segmentation
5.3The Tatar State: Forging a Kinship Society and a Tribal-Consanguineal Polity
5.4Resurrecting the Theory of Rod Organization
5.5The Latest of the Conquest Theories: The Superstratification Thesis
5.6Superstratifications over China: Nomadic Conquerors and Rulers
5.7Evolutionary Anthropology and the Appropriation of the Weberian State
5.8The Theory of Tribalism: The Validation of the Sinocentric Scheme
6 Beyond Evolutionary Materialism: The Military Pathway
6.1Exhausting Evolutionary Materialism: Economic and Warfare Pathways
6.2An Extreme Adaptive Strategy: The Military Feudal State
6.3The Perilous Frontier: Predators, Scavengers, and Parasites
6.4The Imperial Confederacy: Erasing Tribalism
6.5Cycles of Power: The Pattern
7 The Sinocentric Paradigm in (Frontier) History
7.1The Autocracy of Segmentary Opposition: Theory versus Sources
7.2Building Imperial Autocracy: Defying Cultural Ecology
7.3Developing Tanistry: Denying Dynastic Rulership
7.4The Metamorphosis: Arguing for the Chinese Absorptive Empire
7.5The Theory of Universal Rulership: Degrading the Great Khan
7.6A Roman Insight: Defining Emperorship and Empire
8 The Nomadic Leviathan: Extrahuman Transportation and the Military Constitution
8.1Debunking the Circumscription Theory
8.2Extrahuman Transportation: Mobility, Nomadism, and Civilization
8.3Pastoral Nomadism: Labor Efficiency and the Military Establishment
8.4The State: Warband, City, and Tribe
8.5The Nomadic Leviathan: The Military Constitution
9 The Tribal Inner Asia: Biblical Ethnology
9.1Ordo: Courts and Cities
9.2Inner Asian Tribal Society
9.3The Mosaic Ethnology: Horde to Tribe
9.4The Scientific Ethnology: The Leibnizian Paradigm
9.5The Clash of the Political and Ethnological
References
Index
· · · · · · (收起)