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By Nicola Di Cosmo

ISBN-10: 0521543827

ISBN-13: 9780521543828

ISBN-10: 0521770645

ISBN-13: 9780521770644

relatives among internal Asian nomads and chinese language are a continuing subject matter all through chinese language historical past. through investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by means of examining the evolution of styles of interplay alongside China's frontiers, and by way of exploring how this interplay was once recorded in historiography, this seems to be on the origins of the cultural and political tensions among those civilizations during the first millennium BC. the most goal of the booklet is to investigate ethnic, cultural, and political frontiers among nomads and chinese language within the historic contexts that resulted in their formation, and to examine cultural perceptions of 'others' as a functionality of an analogous historic strategy. according to either archaeological and textual resources, this 2002 ebook additionally introduces a brand new methodological method of chinese language frontier historical past, which mixes vast authentic information with a cautious scrutiny of the explanations, tools, and normal belief of heritage that expert the chinese language historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien.

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