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Sui-Tang China and its Turko-Mongol neighbors : culture, power and connections, 580-800

Title
Sui-Tang China and its Turko-Mongol neighbors : culture, power and connections, 580-800 / Jonathan Karam Skaff.
Author
Skaff, Jonathan Karam.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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xix, 400 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
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.
Series Statement
Oxford studies in early empires
Uniform Title
Oxford studies in early empires.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-384) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 13-3011
ISBN
  • 9780199734139 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 0199734135 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
  • 2011041069
  • 40021200691
OCLC
756767670
Author
Skaff, Jonathan Karam.
Title
Sui-Tang China and its Turko-Mongol neighbors : culture, power and connections, 580-800 / Jonathan Karam Skaff.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Series
Oxford studies in early empires
Oxford studies in early empires.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-384) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40021200691
Research Call Number
JFE 13-3011
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