1st Edition
Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China
By Edwin G. Pulleyblank
Copyright 2002
324 Pages
by
Routledge
The present set of studies by Professor Pulleyblank complements those gathered in Essays on Tang and pre-Tang China. The central concern here is the interaction between China and the non-Chinese peoples around it, in particular those of Central Asia. The volume opens with several articles contributing to the dating of events as far west of China as Afghanistan and India based on more accurately... Read more
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.
Biography
Edwin G. Pulleyblank
'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
