Peace, War, and Trade Along the Great Wall: Nomadic-Chinese Interaction Through Two MilleniaIn 1577, during a great court debate over the formulation of china's policy toward its nomadic neighbors, the Ming scholar-official Feng Feng-shih observed: "When there are markets and tribute, there is no war." For two millennia, tension between nomad and chinese along China's northern frontier threatened to erupt into war, and for two millennia, the essential element determining whether peace or war existed was trade. This fascinating book tells the story of the centuries-long confrontation along the Great Wall of China. |
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... economic and , to a lesser extent , political advantage . Bestowals of money , cloth , and other precious items encouraged nomadic tribes to surrender and pay tribute . However , the tribute presented by nomads was of greater symbolic ...
... economic and , to a lesser extent , political advantage . Bestowals of money , cloth , and other precious items encouraged nomadic tribes to surrender and pay tribute . However , the tribute presented by nomads was of greater symbolic ...
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... economic gain . An incident that occurred a short time later , dramatically portrays how Turkic involvement in early T'ang politics was primarily fos- tered by their continuing appetite for Chinese products . In 630 , the Turk leader ...
... economic gain . An incident that occurred a short time later , dramatically portrays how Turkic involvement in early T'ang politics was primarily fos- tered by their continuing appetite for Chinese products . In 630 , the Turk leader ...
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... economic aid and military assistance to transform a once hostile nomadic group into an ally of China . By 44 B.C. ... economic support . This left the Southern Hsiung - nu with little choice but to express continued obedience to the Han ...
... economic aid and military assistance to transform a once hostile nomadic group into an ally of China . By 44 B.C. ... economic support . This left the Southern Hsiung - nu with little choice but to express continued obedience to the Han ...
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Account Altan Khan Annals attack barbarians bestowals Bilge Khan Biography border Ch'i Ch'ing chih Chin China Chinese court Chinggis Khan Chiu T'ang shu chüan Dayan Khan envoys Esen exchange frontier markets frontiers of China Fu Pi grain Han dynasty horse markets Hsien-pei Hsin T'ang shu Ibid Il Khan imperial intermarriage Ishbara Jinong jitsuroku sho Jou-jan Jurchen Kao-ti Kao-tsu Khitan Ko-le Khan Later T'ang madic Manchus Mao-tun Middle Kingdom military Ming court Ming emperor Ming shih Ming shih-lu Mokohen Mongolian Mongols nese nomadic nomadic leaders nomadic rulers Northern Chou Northern Wei officials Oirad peace present tribute Prince princess relations Reprinted in Taipei sedentarist sent Shan-yü Shih-tsung shu reprinted Taipei Southern Hsiung-nu suggested Sui dynasty Sung shih T'ai-tsung T'ang court T'ang emperor Ta-t'ung Ta-tan Tibetan trade tribes tributary Tümen Turkic Turks Uighur Uriyangkha vassal Wang Ch'ung-ku Wang Mang Wen-ti Wu-huan Wu-ti yearly payments Yüan