Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors : Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800.

Skaff, Jonathan Karam.
Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors :
DK/0112
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ISBN
9780199875900 (electronic bk.)
9780199734139
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Yer Numarası
DK/0112
Yazar
Skaff, Jonathan Karam.
Yayın Bilgisi
©2012.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (421 pages)
Dizi
Oxford Studies in Early Empires Ser.
İçindekiler Notu
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Konu
Balance of power -- History -- To 1500..
Borderlands -- China -- History -- To 1500..
Borderlands -- Asia, Central -- History -- To 1500..
Mongols -- Asia, Central -- History -- To 1500..
Turkic peoples -- Asia, Central -- History -- To 1500..
Nomads -- Asia, Central -- History -- To 1500..
China -- History -- Sui dynasty, 581-618.
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