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Bezig met laden... From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh-Century China: Sung's Foreign Relations with Kitan Liaodoor David Curtis Wright
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)History of Warfare (33)
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)327.51Social sciences Political Science International Relations Asia China & KoreaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |
The book deals with the military campaign and diplomatic wrangling that lead to the Treaty of Shanyuan in 1005, and with various aspects of the regular diplomacy conducted between the two empires during the following century. The two emperors addressed one another as brothers (or uncle and nephew when generations mismatched) and embassies were sent to bring felicitations on the New Year, imperial birthdays, the ascensions of new emperors to the throne, etc., as well as for more ad hoc purposes to negotiate solutions to various disagreements that arose. Under the genial and familial veneer with which diplomacy was conducted, a serious strategic rivalry continued, and the implicit threat of renewed resort to war was always there.
Wright doesn't much comment on it, but the available source material clearly leans heavily to the Song side; we know a fair bit of the internal deliberations of the Song court, and of the experience of Song diplimats in Liao, but far less about what the Liao thought of the situation.
I liked the book well enough, but probably wouldn't have got it at list price, which typically of Brill is on the astronomical side.