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Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier

Author : Jenny F. So
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295974736
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier written by Jenny F. So and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important, original study of the (previously denied) cultural contribution of the barbarians to China, and of the trade northward. Focuses on the Han period. The artifacts, abundantly and well- illustrated (200 illus., 40 in color), document the goods and support the argument. Published by the

Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier

Author : Jenny F. So
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier written by Jenny F. So and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pastoral tribes on China's northern borders played a major role in the cultural development of China during antiquity. By the first millenium B.C., the region's inhabitants were trading in horses, wool, carpets and fur--items in demand by their urban Chinese neighbors. The artistic creations of the two groups reflect centuries of their complex interrelationships. The pastoral tribes favored belt buckles, chariot and harness fittings, weapons and tools in cast gold, silver and embellished bronze. The urban dwellers preferred wine and food vessels and bronze bells to use in rituals. This book emphasizes the character of consumerism in these ancient neighboring societies and the effects of commerce and migration on the appearance and production of everyday and luxury goods.--Dust jacket.

Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire

Author : William Honeychurch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 149391815X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire written by William Honeychurch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph uses the latest archaeological results from Mongolia and the surrounding areas of Inner Asia to propose a novel understanding of nomadic statehood, political economy, and the nature of interaction with ancient China. In contrast to the common view of the Eurasian steppe as a dependent periphery of Old World centers, this work views Inner Asia as a locus of enormous influence on neighboring civilizations, primarily through the development and transmission of diverse organizational models, technologies, and socio-political traditions. This work explores the spatial management of political relationships within the pastoral nomadic setting during the first millennium BCE and argues that a culture of mobility, horse-based transport, and long-distance networking promoted a unique variant of statehood. Although states of the eastern steppe were geographically large and hierarchical, these polities also relied on techniques of distributed authority, multiple centers, flexible structures, and ceremonialism to accommodate a largely mobile and dispersed populace. This expertise in “spatial politics” set the stage early on for the expansionistic success of later Asian empires under the Mongols and Manchus. Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire brings a distinctly anthropological treatment to the prehistory of Mongolia and is the first major work to explore key issues in the archaeology of eastern Eurasia using a comparative framework. The monograph adds significantly to anthropological theory on interaction between states and outlying regions, the emergence of secondary complexity, and the growth of imperial traditions. Based on this approach, the window of Inner Asian prehistory offers a novel opportunity to investigate the varied ways that complex societies grow and the processes articulating adjacent societies in networks of mutual transformation.

Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History

Author : Nicola Di Cosmo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135790957
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History written by Nicola Di Cosmo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of boundaries - physical or political - has become fertile ground in the analysis of Chinese history and society. These essays cover the early decades of the Zhou dynasty to the early centuries after the Manchu conquest.

Ancient China and its Enemies

Author : Nicola Di Cosmo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139431651
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Ancient China and its Enemies written by Nicola Di Cosmo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in historiography, this looks at 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 2002 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.

The Historical Evolution of World-Systems

Author : C. Chase-Dunn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403980527
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Evolution of World-Systems written by C. Chase-Dunn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods. The book advances understanding of the regularities in the dynamics of empire and the expansion of political, social and economic interaction networks, from the Bronze Age forward. The authors analyze the expansion and contraction of cross-cultural trade networks and systems of competing and allying political groupings. In premodern times, theses ranged from small local trading networks (even the very small ones of hunting-gathering peoples) to the vast Mongol world-system. Within such systems, there is usually one, or a very few, hegemonic powers. How they achieve dominance and how transitions lead to systems change are important topics, particularly at a time when the United States' position is in flux. The chapters in this book review several recent approaches and present a wealth of new findings.

The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512821616
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State written by Joshua A. Fogel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan and China did not begin to emerge as unified political entities until the nineteenth century. Yet scholars and politicians persistently refer to "Japan" and "China" in discussions of earlier periods, as if the modern nation-state had long been established in these regions. Joshua Fogel here brings together essays by eight renowned East Asian scholars to demonstrate why this oversight distorts our historical analysis and understanding of both countries. The nation-states of Japan and China developed much later and, indeed, far less uniformly than usually conveyed in popular myth and political culture. Moreover, the false depiction of an earlier national identity not only alters the factual record; it serves the contemporary engines of nationalist mythology and propaganda. This interdisciplinary volume asks deceptively simple questions: When did "Japan" and "China" become Japan and China? When and why do inhabitants begin to define their identity and interests nationally rather than locally? Identifying the role of mitigating factors from disease and travel abroad to the subtleties of political language and aesthetic sensibility, the answers provided in these diverse and insightful essays are appropriately complex. By setting aside Western notions of the nation-state, the contributors approach each region on its own terms, while the thematic organization of the book provides a unique lens through which to view the challenges common to understanding both Japan and China. This highly readable collection will be important to scholars both inside and beyond the field of East Asian studies.

Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors

Author : Katheryn M. Linduff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418619
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors by : Katheryn M. Linduff

Download or read book Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors written by Katheryn M. Linduff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

The Cambridge History of Ancient China

Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521470308
Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Ancient China written by Michael Loewe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-13 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.

Cultural Convergence in the Northern Qi Period

Author : Suzanne G. Valenstein
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
ISBN 13 : 1588392112
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultural Convergence in the Northern Qi Period by : Suzanne G. Valenstein

Download or read book Cultural Convergence in the Northern Qi Period written by Suzanne G. Valenstein and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese History

Author : Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674002494
Total Pages : 1220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Chinese History written by Endymion Porter Wilkinson and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. Because the writing of history has always played a central role in Chinese politics and culture, special attention is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography.

Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors

Author : Jonathan Karam Skaff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019999627X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors written by Jonathan Karam Skaff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gender and Chinese Archaeology

Author : Katheryn M. Linduff
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759104099
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Chinese Archaeology by : Katheryn M. Linduff

Download or read book Gender and Chinese Archaeology written by Katheryn M. Linduff and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles in which the contributors analyze and reconstruct the roles of women in various regions of China from the late Neolithic to the early Empire period. Topics include mortuary ritual, social status and structures of power, economic influences on cultural practice, textile production, and art in early Chinese societies.

Ritual and Economy in East Asia

Author : Rowan Flad
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1950446417
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Ritual and Economy in East Asia by : Rowan Flad

Download or read book Ritual and Economy in East Asia written by Rowan Flad and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In commemoration of Lothar von Falkenhausens 60th birthday, this volume assembles eighteen scholarly essays that explore the intersection between art, economy, and ritual in ancient East Asia. The contributions are clustered into four themes: Ritual Economy, Ritual and Sacrifice, Technology, Community, Interaction, and Objects and Meaning, which collectively reflect the theoretical, methodological, and historical questions that Falkenhausen has been examining via his scholarship, research, and teaching throughout his career. Most of the chapters work with archaeological and textual data from China, but there are also studies of materials from Mongolia, Korea, Southeast Asia and even Egypt, showing the global impact of Falkenhausens work. The chronological range of studies extends from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age in China, into the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. The authors discuss art, economy, ritual, interaction, and technology in the broad context of East Asian archaeology and its connection to the world beyond.

Sources of Han Décor: Foreign Influence on the Han Dynasty Chinese Iconography of Paradise (206 BC-AD 220)

Author : Sophia-Karin Psarras
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789693268
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Sources of Han Décor: Foreign Influence on the Han Dynasty Chinese Iconography of Paradise (206 BC-AD 220) written by Sophia-Karin Psarras and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using archaeological data to examine the development of Han dynasty Chinese art (206 BC-AD 220), this book focusses on the iconography of paradise. Influence from the Chinese Bronze Age is discussed along with a surprisingly profound debt to Greece, the Near East and the steppe.

Social Memory and State Formation in Early China

Author : Min Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141451
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Social Memory and State Formation in Early China written by Min Li and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea

Author : Petya Andreeva
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399528548
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea written by Petya Andreeva and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term "e;animal style"e;, this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia. This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the "e;Other"e;. In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.