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Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History Paperback - 2004
by Nicola Di Cosmo
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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.
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The terminology for the regions inhabited by the nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples of Inner Asia in pre-historical and historical times is inherently unstable, given that geographic areas such as Central Asia, Inner Asia, the Northern Zone, and Central Eurasia are usually defined ad hoc.1
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- Title Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History
- Author Nicola Di Cosmo
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Secon
- Pages 380
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
- Date 2004-04-22
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780521543828 / 0521543827
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 5.96 x 0.77 in (22.91 x 15.14 x 1.96 cm)
- Reading level 1450
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- 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
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004558435
- Dewey Decimal Code 931
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