Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian HistoryCambridge University Press, 2002 - 369 Seiten Relations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns of interaction along China's northern frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in early Chinese historiography, this book explores the origins of the cultural and political tensions between these two civilizations through the first millennium BC. The main purpose of the book is to analyze ethnic, cultural, and political frontiers between nomads and Chinese in the historical contexts that led to their formation, and to look at cultural perceptions of 'others' as a function of the same historical process. Based on both archaeological and textual sources, this book also introduces a new methodological approach to Chinese frontier history, which combines extensive factual data with a careful scrutiny of the motives, methods, and general conception of history that informed the Chinese historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien. |
Inhalt
The Steppe Highway The Rise of Pastoral Nomadism as a Eurasian Phenomenon | 13 |
Bronze Iron and Gold The Evolution of Nomadic Cultures on the Northern Frontier of China | 44 |
II | 91 |
Beasts and Birds The Historical Context of Early Chinese Perceptions of the Northern Peoples | 93 |
Walls and Horses The Beginning of Historical Contacts between HorseRiding Nomads and Chinese States | 127 |
Those Who Draw the Bow The Rise of the Hsiungnu Nomadic Empire and the Political Unification of the Nomads | 161 |
From Peace to War Chinas Shift from Appeasement to Military Engagement | 206 |
III | 253 |
In Search of Grass and Water Ethnography and History of the North in the Historians Records | 255 |
Taming the North The Rationalization of the Nomads in Ssuma Chiens Historical Thought | 294 |
Conclusion | 313 |
Glossary | 319 |
Select Bibliography | 335 |
361 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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