1st Edition
The Collapse of China's Later Han Dynasty, 25-220 CE The Northwest Borderlands and the Edge of Empire
By Wicky W. K. Tse
Copyright 2018
180 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In the Later Han period the region covering the modern provinces of Gansu, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, northern Sichuan, and western Shaanxi, was a porous frontier zone between the Chinese regimes and their Central Asian neighbours, not fully incorporated into the Chinese realm until the first century BCE. Not surprisingly the region had a large concentration of men of martial background,... Read more
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 The Others Within: The Qiang Wars and the Abandonment of the Northwest
5 Epilogue: The Beginning of the End
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Wicky W K Tse is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
