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Multicultural China in the early Middle Ages /

In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of E...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Sanping
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Encounters with Asia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Old Wine in New Bottles / Mair, Victor H.
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Legacy of the Tuoba Xianbei: The Tang Dynasty
  • Chapter 2. From Mulan to Unicorn
  • Chapter 3. Brotherly Matters and the Canine Image: The Invasion of "Barbarian" Tongues
  • Chapter 4. The Huns and the Bulgars: The Chinese Chapter
  • Chapter 5. The Mystery of the "White-Drake" Oracle: The Iranian Shadows
  • Chapter 6. Son of Heaven and Son of God
  • Chapter 7. Bai Juyi and Central Asia
  • Appendix. Turkic or Proto-Mongolian? A Note on the Tuoba Language
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.