Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History - Couverture souple

Di Cosmo, Nicola

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521543827 ISBN 13 : 9780521543828

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 2002 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nicola Di Cosmo is Senior Lecturer in Chinese History at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521543827
• ISBN 13: 9780521543828
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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