Editing Jiankang (section)

===Six Dynasties===
The Tang historian [[Xu Song (historian)|Xu Song]] (許嵩, Xǔ Sōng), in his work ''Jiankang Shilu'' (建康實錄, Jiànkāng Shílù), coined the term "[[Six Dynasties]]" for the various regimes that had centred their power on the site:
* [[Eastern Wu]] (222–280 CE)
* [[Jin dynasty (266–420)|Eastern Jin]] (317–420 CE)
* [[Liu Song dynasty]] (420–479 CE)
* [[Southern Qi]] (479–502 CE)
* [[Liang dynasty|Liang]] (502–557 CE)
* [[Chen dynasty|Chen]] (557–589 CE)

In the 6th century, Jiankang may well have been the largest city in the world, with a population of probably more than one million people. At that time, Rome had a population of less than 100,000, [[Constantinople]] had about 500,000, and [[Luoyang]] had more than 500,000.<ref name="liu">Shufen Liu, "Jiankang and the Commercial Empire of the Southern Dynasties", in Pearce, Spiro, Ebrey eds. ''Culture and Power'', 2001:35.</ref>