From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh-Century China: Sung's Foreign Relations with Kitan Liao

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14456-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

This study of relations between Sung China (960-1279) and Kitan Liao (916-1125), a state on Sung's northern border, is both a military and diplomatic history and a history of diplomacy.
Its first chapters historically contextualise the equality of Sung-Liao diplomacy and narrate how, during the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, the two states fought each other to a standstill before concluding peace at Shan-yüan in 1005.
Later chapters cover the forms and textures of peaceful diplomatic contact between Sung and Liao that endured for the rest of the century.
It will be useful for scholars and interested general readers who wish to probe beyond generalisations and explore in more detail mid-imperial China's warfare and diplomacy with its northern neighbours.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter One: Sung-Liao Diplomacy in the History of Chinese Foreign Relations
Chapter Two: The Sung-Liao War of 1004-1005 and the Covenant of Shan-yüan
Chapter Three: Embassies
Chapter Four: Routine Diplomatic Missives
Chapter Five: Embassy Reports
Chapter Six: Mid-century Crisis

Conclusion
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Curtis Wright, Ph.D. (1993), Princeton, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He publishes on imperial Chinese military and diplomatic history and is currently researching the Mongol conquest of Southern Sung China.