Rise of the Tang Dynasty: The Reunification of China and the Military Response to the Steppe Nomads (AD581-626) 1473887771, 9781473887770

Rise of the Tang Dynasty: The Reunification of China and the Military Response to the Steppe Nomads (AD581-626) 1473887771, 9781473887770

Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD.

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The Reunification of China: Peace through War under the Song Dynasty

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The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military Under the Qing Dynasty 9780755624010, 9781845111595

What particularly distinguished the Qing from other ruling houses in China's imperial period? In this pathbreaking

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The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History 9781400874446

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the tec

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The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps: The Republic of China Military, 1942–1955 9780806161181

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Communication, Civilization and China: Discovering the Tang Dynasty (618–907) [1st ed.] 9789811578076, 9789811578083

Referencing more than 40 ancient works as well as 70 books and papers of contemporary scholars, this book opens up the c

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The Fall and Rise of China

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Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan 9781400884018, 9780691014340, 0691066868, 0691014345, 1400884012

Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were

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Communication, Civilization and China: Discovering the Tang Dynasty (618–907) 9811578079, 9789811578076

Referencing more than 40 ancient works as well as 70 books and papers of contemporary scholars, this book opens up the c

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The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions (W.M. Keck Foundation Series) 9781886439023

This is an account of the travels in Central Asia and India of the seventh-century Chinese scholar-monk Xuanzang. An epo

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