Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China

List of contents

Contents: Preface; The date of the Staël-Holstein Roll; Some remarks on the Toquzoghuz problem; Chinese evidence for the date of Kaniska; The Chinese and their neighbors in prehistoric and early historic times; Ji Hu: indigenous inhabitants of Shaanbei and Western Shanxi; Zou and Lu and the sinification of Shandong; The "High Carts": a Turkish speaking people before the Türks; The name of the Kirghiz; Chinese and Indo-Europeans; The Wu-sun and Sakas and the Yüeh-Chih migration; Han China in Central Asia; Why Tocharians?; Early contacts between Indo-Europeans and Chinese; Central Asia at the dawn of history; Index.

Summary

This text is a close examination of Chinese historical sources in order to solve questions about the people of that time, their history and their relations with the West.

Additional text

'If any one scholar can be regarded as the 'standard-bearer' of the post-war generation in this field (...), it is Edwin G. Pulleyblank. It is therefore with great respect that we welcome the re-publication of this collection of fourteen essays spanning from 1954 to 1999: an amazing forty-five years at the forefront of linguistic and historical research on the early contacts betwen China and Central Asia.' The International History Review

Product details

• Authors: Edwin G. Pulleyblank
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780860788591
• ISBN: 978-0-86078-859-1
• No. of pages: 324
• Weight: 589 g
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, Central Asia, Ancient World, Ancient History, Asian History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE