Ancient China and its enemies : the rise of nomadic power in East Asian history /
Relations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns of interaction along China's northern frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in e...
| Основен автор: | Di Cosmo, Nicola, 1957- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112496 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Ancient China and its enemies. |
| Резюме: |
Relations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns of interaction along China's northern frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in early Chinese historiography, this book explores the origins of the cultural and political tensions between these two civilizations through the first millennium BC. The main purpose of the book is to analyze ethnic, cultural, and political frontiers between nomads and Chinese in the historical contexts that led to their formation, and to look at cultural perceptions of 'others' as a function of the same historical process. Based on both archaeological and textual sources, this book also introduces a new methodological approach to Chinese frontier history, which combines extensive factual data with a careful scrutiny of the motives, methods, and general conception of history that informed the Chinese historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (ix, 369 pages) : maps |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-359) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0511040776 9780511040771 0511034148 9780511034145 0511118309 9780511118302 9780511511967 0511511965 9780511049385 0511049382 0511157177 9780511157172 |