Jonathan Karam Skaff

Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors (eBook, ePUB)

Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199996278
• Artikelnr.: 38169692

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Karam Skaff is Professor of History and Director of International Studies at Shippensburg University.

Inhaltsangabe

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