Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History Tapa blanda - 2004

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 frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in historiography, this looks at 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.

Detalles

• Título Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History
• Autor Nicola Di Cosmo
• Encuadernación Tapa blanda
• Edición [ Edition: Secon
• Páginas 380
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
• Fecha de publicación 2004-04-22
• Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
• ISBN 9780521543828 / 0521543827
• Peso 1.11 libras (0.50 kg)
• Dimensiones 9.02 x 5.96 x 0.77 pulgadas (22.91 x 15.14 x 1.96 cm)
• Nivel de lectura 1450
• Temas
  • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
  • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
• Library of Congress subjects China - History - To 221 B.C
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2004558435
• Dewey Decimal Code 931