Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors: Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800Oxford University Press, 2012 M08 6 - 432 pages A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other. |
Contents
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EASTERN EURASIAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE | 73 |
NEGOTIATING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONSHIPS | 169 |
Appendices | 301 |
Notes | 339 |
Bibliography | 361 |
Index with Chinese Character Glossary | 385 |
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