Inner Asian Frontiers Of China by Richmond Lattimore
A foundational study of how China’s borders with the steppe shaped its history, this work traces the shifting frontier zone where agrarian states, pastoral nomads, and oasis communities met. It explores ecological and economic contrasts between farming and herding, the formation of steppe confederations, and the recurring cycles of trade, tribute, war, and accommodation. Surveying policies from early imperial eras to the Qing, it argues that frontiers functioned less as fixed lines than as dynamic contact belts that continually redefined power, identity, and regional networks.
- Published
- 1940
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 450-500
- Original Language
- English
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