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Auteur(s) : Skaff, Jonathan Karam
Titre(s) : Sui-Tang China and its Turko-Mongol neighbors [Texte imprimé] : culture, power and connections, 580-800 / Jonathan Karam Skaff
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012
Description matérielle : xix, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in early empires
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in early empires
Comprend : Part I: Historical and Geographical Background. Eastern Eurasian Geography, History and Warfare ; China-Inner Asian Borderlands: Discourse and Reality. ; Part II: Eastern Eurasian Society and Culture. Power through Patronage: Patrimonial Political Networking ; Ideology and Interstate Competition ; Diplomacy as Eurasian Ritual. ; Part III: Negotiating Diplomatic Relationships. Negotiating Investiture ; Negotiating Kinship ; Horse Trading and other Material Bargains ; Breaking Bonds.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-384) and index
"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. This interdisciplinary
and multi-perspective study will appeal to readers of comparative and world history,
especially those interested in medieval warfare, diplomacy, and cultural studies."--Publisher's
website
Sujet(s) : Mongols -- Asie centrale -- Moyen âge
Peuples turcs -- Asie centrale -- Moyen âge
Frontières -- Chine -- Asie centrale -- Moyen âge
Chine -- 581-618 (Dynastie des Sui)
Chine -- 618-907 (Dynastie des T′ang)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199734139 (hbk.) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0199734135 (hbk.) (acid-free paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436616916
Notice n° :
FRBNF43661691
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