The Collapse of China's Later Han Dynasty, 25-220 Ce: The Northwest Borderlands and the Edge of Empire

ISBN-13: 9780367589158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 180 str.

Wicky W. K. Tse

Opis

Based on extensive original research, and combining cultural, military and political history, this book examines fully the forging of military regional identity in the northwest borderlands and the consequences of this for the early Chinese empires.　

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Maps

Maps

The Emperors of the Two Han Dynasties

1 Introductory Orientations: The Later Han, Its Northwestern Frontier & Regional Identity

2 Opening New Territories & Partitioning the Space: Natural and Administrative Geographies of the Early Imperial Northwest

3 Being Peripheralized: The Northwesterners in the Later Han Empire

4 The Others Within: The Qiang Wars and the Abandonment of the Northwest

5 Epilogue: The Beginning of the End

Bibliography

Index

　

O autorze

Wicky W K Tse is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University