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> H-ASIA
> August 7, 2012
>
> Member publication on Sui-Tang China's relations with Eurasia
> ***********
> From: Skaff, Jonathan [JKSkaf@ship.edu]
>
> Some list members may be interested in my recently published book:
>
> Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors: Culture, Power, and
> Connections, 580-800, Oxford University Press (Oxford Studies in Early
> Empires)
>
> Description
> Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to
> reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating
> interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang
> dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff
> upends the notion that inhabitants of China and Mongolia were
> irreconcilably different and hostile to each other. Rulers on both sides
> deployed strikingly similar diplomacy, warfare, ideologies of rulership,
> and patrimonial political networking to seek hegemony over each other and
> the peoples living in the pastoral borderlands between them. The book
> particularly disputes the supposed uniqueness of imperial China's
> tributary diplomacy by demonstrating that similar customary norms of
> interstate relations existed in a wide sphere in Eurasia as far west as
> Byzantium, India, and Iran. These previously unrecognized cultural
> connections, therefore, were arguably as much the work of Turko-Mongol
> pastoral nomads traversing the Eurasian steppe as the more commonly
> recognized Silk Road monks and merchants. This interdisciplinary and
> multi-perspective study will appeal to readers of comparative and world
> history, especially those interested in medieval warfare, diplomacy, and
> cultural studies.
>
> Table of Contents
> Introduction: The China-Inner Asia Frontier as World History
> Part I: Historical and Geographical Background
> 1. Eastern Eurasian Geography, History and Warfare
> 2. China-Inner Asian Borderlands: Discourse and Reality
> Part II: Eastern Eurasian Society and Culture
> 3. Power through Patronage: Patrimonial Political Networking
> 4. Ideology and Interstate Competition
> 5. Diplomacy as Eurasian Ritual
> Part III: Negotiating Diplomatic Relationships
> 6. Negotiating Investiture
> 7. Negotiating Kinship
> 8. Horse Trading and other Material Bargains
> 9. Breaking Bonds
> Conclusion: Beyond the Silk Roads
> Appendices
> Bibliography
>
>
> ISBN13: 978-0-19-973413-9
> ISBN10: 0-19-973413-5
>
> Jonathan Skaff
> Professor of History
> Director of International Studies
> Shippensburg University
>
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