Sui-Tang China and its Turko-Mongol neighbors : culture, power and connections, 580-800 / Jonathan Karam Skaff.
2012
DS749.25 .S57 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Sui-Tang China and its Turko-Mongol neighbors : culture, power and connections, 580-800 / Jonathan Karam Skaff.
Author
Skaff, Jonathan Karam.
ISBN
9780199734139 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0199734135 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0199734135 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
xix, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DS749.25 .S57 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
951/.017
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-384) and index.
Series
Oxford studies in early empires.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.