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The Collapse of China's Later Han Dynasty, 25-220 CE - The Northwest Borderlands and the Edge of Empire (Paperback)
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The Collapse of China's Later Han Dynasty, 25-220 CE - The Northwest Borderlands and the Edge of Empire (Paperback)
Series: Asian States and Empires
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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, from which a regional culture characterized by warrior
spirit and skills prevailed. This military elite was generally
honoured by the imperial centre, but during the Later Han period
the ascendancy of eastern-based scholar-officials and the
consequent increased emphasis on civil values and de-militarization
fundamentally transformed the attitude of the imperial state
towards the northwestern frontiersmen, leaving them struggling to
achieve high political and social status. From the ensuing tensions
and resentment followed the capture of the imperial capital by a
northwestern military force, the deposing of the emperor and the
installation of a new one, which triggered the disintegration of
the empire. Based on extensive original research, and combining
cultural, military and political history, this book examines fully
the forging of military regional identity in the northwest
borderlands and the consequences of this for the early Chinese
empires.
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