Sui-Tang China and its Turko-Mongol neighbors : culture, power and connections, 580-800 / Jonathan Karam Skaff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skaff, Jonathan Karam.

Series:

Oxford studies in early empires.

Oxford studies in early empires

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balance of power--History--To 1500.

Balance of power.

Borderlands--China--History--To 1500.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Asia, Central--History--To 1500.

Mongols--Asia, Central--History--To 1500.

Mongols.

Turkic peoples--Asia, Central--History--To 1500.

Turkic peoples.

Nomads--Asia, Central--History--To 1500.

Nomads.

China--History--Sui dynasty, 581-618.

China.

China--History--Tang dynasty, 618-907.

China--Relations--Asia, Central.

Asia, Central--Relations--China.

Asia, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This publication challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other. The author upends the notion that inhabitants of China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different and hostile to each other.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Maps, Figures, and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Conventions of Transliteration and Translation""; ""Introduction: The China-Inner Asia Frontier as World History""; ""I. METHOD AND THEORY""; ""II. CHINA-INNER ASIA RELATIONS""; ""A. Eurasian Diplomacy""; ""B. Sui-Tang Cosmopolitanism""; ""C. Identity and Power: Patrimonialism""; ""D. China-Inner Asia Borderlands""; ""E. Environment""; ""F. Warfare""; ""PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND""; ""1. Eastern Eurasian Geography, History, and Warfare""; ""I. ECOLOGY OF EASTERN EURASIA""

""II. SUI-TANG EMPIRES""""III. TURKO-MONGOL ECONOMY AND SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION""; ""IV. EASTERN EURASIAN BALANCE OF POWER""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""2. China-Inner Asian Borderlands: Discourse and Reality""; ""I. CONCEPTS OF “BARBARIANS�""; ""II. BORDERLAND COMPLEXITIES""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""PART TWO: EASTERN EURASIAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE""; ""3. Power through Patronage: Patrimonial Political Networking""; ""I. PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN INNER ASIA AND NORTH CHINA""; ""II. SUI-TANG PATRON-CLIENT NETWORKS""; ""III. IMPERIAL PATRIMONIALISM""; ""IV. HORIZONTAL ALLIANCES""

""V. LOYALTY IDEALS OF MILITARY MEN""""CONCLUSION""; ""4. Ideology and Interstate Competition""; ""I. EURASIAN IMPERIAL SPACE""; ""II. EASTERN EURASIAN LEGITIMACY""; ""III. IDEOLOGICAL COMPETITION AND CONVERGENCE""; ""IV. EDUCATION AND IDEOLOGICAL EXCHANGE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""5. Diplomacy as Eurasian Ritual""; ""I. RITUALS OF DIPLOMACY""; ""II. INVESTITURE AS SYMBOLIC SUBORDINATION""; ""CONCLUSION: EURASIAN DIPLOMACY IN PERSPECTIVE""; ""PART THREE: NEGOTIATING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONSHIPS""; ""6. Negotiating Investiture""; ""I. INVESTITURE OF OUTER CLIENTS""

""II. TANG APPOINTMENT OF BRIDLE OFFICIALS""""III. FORMALIZATION OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""7. Negotiating Kinship""; ""I. POLITICAL MARRIAGES""; ""II. FICTIVE KINSHIP""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""8. Horse Trading and Other Material Bargains""; ""I. PASTORAL NOMADIC LIFE UNDER TURKO-MONGOL RULE""; ""II. PASTORAL NOMADIC LIFE UNDER SUI-TANG RULE""; ""III. TANG HORSE SYSTEM AND THE HORSE TRADE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""9. Breaking Bonds""; ""I. ENVIRONMENT""; ""II. PATRIMONIAL POLITICS""; ""III. RITUALS OF SEVERANCE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Conclusion: Beyond the Silk Roads""; ""I. CULTURE""

""II. POWER""""III. CONNECTIONS""; ""CODA""; ""Appendices""; ""APPENDIX A: ATTACKS ON NORTH CHINA PREFECTURES""; ""APPENDIX B: NORTH CHINA POPULATION FROM HAN THROUGH NORTHERN SONG DYNASTIES""; ""APPENDIX C: TANG NORTHERN PREFECTURES""; ""APPENDIX D: CHINESE DYNASTIES AND PERIODS MENTIONED IN TEXT""; ""APPENDIX E: NORTHERN ZHOU, SUI, AND TANG EMPERORS OF CHINA AND TURKIC RULERS OF MONGOLIA AND/OR INNER MONGOLIA""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""I. PRIMARY SOURCES""; ""II. SECONDARY SOURCES AND TRANSLATIONS""; ""Index with Chinese Character Glossary"

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 24, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-999627-X

0-19-987590-1

OCLC:

796827250