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Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors
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Artikel-Nr:
9780199734139
Veröffentl:
2012
Seiten:
432
Autor:
Jonathan Karam Skaff
Gewicht:
680 g
Format:
239x163x36 mm
Serie:
Oxford Studies in Early Empire
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jonathan Karam Skaff is Professor of History and Director of International Studies at Shippensburg University.
A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; CONVENTIONS OF TRANSLITERATION ; INTRODUCTION: THE CHINA-INNER ASIA FRONTIER AS WORLD HISTORY ; PART I: HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND ; 1. EASTERN EURASIAN GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND WARFARE ; 2. CHINA-INNER ASIAN BORDERLANDS: DISCOURSE AND REALITY ; PART II: EASTERN EURASIAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE ; 3. POWER THROUGH PATRONAGE: PATRIMONIAL POLITICAL NETWORKING ; 4. IDEOLOGY AND INTERSTATE COMPETITION ; 5. DIPLOMACY AS EURASIAN RITUAL ; PART III: NEGOTIATING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONSHIPS ; 6. NEGOTIATING INVESTITURE ; 7. NEGOTIATING KINSHIP ; 8. HORSE TRADING AND OTHER MATERIAL BARGAINS ; 9. BREAKING BONDS ; CONCLUSION: BEYOND THE SILK ROADS ; APPENDICES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY