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The Cambridge History of China

Volume 6. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907–1368

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Part of The Cambridge History of China

Editors:
Herbert Franke
Denis C. Twitchett, Princeton University, New Jersey

Herbert Franke, Denis Twitchett, Ruth Dunnell, Thomas Allsen, Morris Rossabi, Hsiao Ch'i-ch'ing, John Dardess, Elizabeth Endicott-West, Frederick W. Mote

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Date Published: January 1995
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521243315

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This volume deals with four non-Chinese regimes: the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; and the Mongolian Yuan dynasty that eventually engulfed the whole of China. It investigates the historical background from which these regimes emerged and shows how each in its own way set up viable institutions for the control of a multi-racial, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural population. It discusses these problems not just as a long negative episode in China's history, but shows the ingenuity and adaptability of these states, and their success in achieving political and social stability. The volume presents the fullest chronological account of the period, in which political, institutional, social, and economic changes are integrated as far as possible, and sees the period against a broad background of international relations in Northern and Central Asia.
- Very accessible and suitable for the general reader
- Contains many original maps
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Product details
- Date Published: January 1995
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521243315
- length: 896 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 160 x 48 mm
- weight: 1.364kg
- contains: 11 b/w illus. 37 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
General editor's preface
List of maps
Preface to Volume 6
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
A-pao-chi's descent and the structure of the Yeh-lü clan
Outline genealogy of Liao
Liao emperors and their regnal titles
Genealogy of the Hsia ruling house
Hsia gegnal titles
Genealogy of the early Jurchen rulers
Genealogy of the Chin emperors
Chin regnal titles
Chart of Mongolian rulers
Regnal titles of Mongolian rulers
Capital cities
Introduction
1. The Liao
2. The Hsi Hsia
3. The Chin
4. The rise of the Mongolian Empire
5. The reign of Khubilai
6. Mid-Yüan politics
7. Shun-ti and the end of Yüan rule in China
8. The Yüan government and society
9. Chinese society under Mongol rule, 1215–1368
Bibliographic notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index.
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Editors
Herbert Franke
Denis C. Twitchett, Princeton University, New Jersey
Contributors
Herbert Franke, Denis Twitchett, Ruth Dunnell, Thomas Allsen, Morris Rossabi, Hsiao Ch'i-ch'ing, John Dardess, Elizabeth Endicott-West, Frederick W. Mote