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Suitang China And Its Turkomongol Neighbors Culture Power And Connections 580800 1st Edition Skaff

Name: Suitang China And Its Turkomongol Neighbors Culture Power And Connections 580800 1st Edition Skaff
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Suitang China And Its Turkomongol Neighbors Culture Power And Connections 580800 1st Edition Skaff instant download after payment.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 3.63 MB

Pages: 432

Author: Skaff, Jonathan Karam

ISBN: 9780199734139, 0199734135

Language: English

Year: 2012

Edition: 1

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Suitang China And Its Turkomongol Neighbors Culture Power And Connections 580800 1st Edition Skaff by Skaff, Jonathan Karam 9780199734139, 0199734135 instant download after payment.

Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff upends the notion that inhabitants of China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different and hostile to each other. Rulers on both sides deployed strikingly similar diplomacy, warfare, ideologies of rulership, and patrimonial political networking to seek hegemony over each other and the peoples living in the pastoral borderlands between them. The book particularly disputes the supposed uniqueness of imperial China's tributary diplomacy by demonstrating that similar customary norms of interstate relations existed in a wide sphere in Eurasia as far west as Byzantium, India, and Iran. These previously unrecognized cultural connections, therefore, were arguably as much the work of Turko-Mongol pastoral nomads traversing the Eurasian steppe as the more commonly recognized Silk Road monks and merchants ...
Abstract: 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.