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

Informationen zum Autor Wicky W K Tse is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 T he Others Within: The Qiang Wars and the Abandonment of the Northwest 5 Epilogue: The Beginning of the End Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Wicky W. K. Tse
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138692398
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69239-8
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Asian States and Empires
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History, BCE to c 500 CE, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General