1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996201413503316

Titolo

CVPR 2001 : proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition : 8-14 December, 2001, Kauai, Hawaii, USA

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE Computer Society, 2001

Soggetti

Diagnostic Imaging

Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted

Communication

Investigative Techniques

Information Science

Decision Making, Computer-Assisted

Diagnosis

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures

Medical Informatics Applications

Pattern Recognition, Automated

Models, Theoretical

Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted

Cybernetics

Medical Informatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996201617103316

Autore

Skaff Jonathan Karam

Titolo

Sui-Tang China and its Turko-Mongol neighbors [[electronic resource] ] : culture, power and connections, 580-800 / / Jonathan Karam Skaff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-19-999627-X

0-19-987590-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (421 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Oxford studies in early empires

Disciplina

951/.017

Soggetti

Balance of power - History - To 1500

Borderlands - China - History - To 1500

Borderlands - Asia, Central - History - To 1500

Mongols - Asia, Central - History - To 1500

Turkic peoples - Asia, Central - History - To 1500

Nomads - Asia, Central - History - To 1500

China History Sui dynasty, 581-618

China History Tang dynasty, 618-907

China Relations Asia, Central

Asia, Central Relations China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Maps, Figures, and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Conventions of Transliteration and Translation""; ""Introduction: The China-Inner Asia Frontier as World History""; ""I. METHOD AND THEORY""; ""II. CHINA-INNER ASIA RELATIONS""; ""A. Eurasian Diplomacy""; ""B. Sui-Tang Cosmopolitanism""; ""C. Identity and Power: Patrimonialism""; ""D. China-Inner Asia Borderlands""; ""E. Environment""; ""F. Warfare""; ""PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND""; ""1. Eastern Eurasian Geography, History, and Warfare""; ""I. ECOLOGY OF EASTERN EURASIA""

""II. SUI-TANG EMPIRES""""III. TURKO-MONGOL ECONOMY AND SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION""; ""IV. EASTERN EURASIAN BALANCE



OF POWER""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""2. China-Inner Asian Borderlands: Discourse and Reality""; ""I. CONCEPTS OF “BARBARIANS�""; ""II. BORDERLAND COMPLEXITIES""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""PART TWO: EASTERN EURASIAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE""; ""3. Power through Patronage: Patrimonial Political Networking""; ""I. PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN INNER ASIA AND NORTH CHINA""; ""II. SUI-TANG PATRON-CLIENT NETWORKS""; ""III. IMPERIAL PATRIMONIALISM""; ""IV. HORIZONTAL ALLIANCES""

""V. LOYALTY IDEALS OF MILITARY MEN""""CONCLUSION""; ""4. Ideology and Interstate Competition""; ""I. EURASIAN IMPERIAL SPACE""; ""II. EASTERN EURASIAN LEGITIMACY""; ""III. IDEOLOGICAL COMPETITION AND CONVERGENCE""; ""IV. EDUCATION AND IDEOLOGICAL EXCHANGE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""5. Diplomacy as Eurasian Ritual""; ""I. RITUALS OF DIPLOMACY""; ""II. INVESTITURE AS SYMBOLIC SUBORDINATION""; ""CONCLUSION: EURASIAN DIPLOMACY IN PERSPECTIVE""; ""PART THREE: NEGOTIATING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONSHIPS""; ""6. Negotiating Investiture""; ""I. INVESTITURE OF OUTER CLIENTS""

""II. TANG APPOINTMENT OF BRIDLE OFFICIALS""""III. FORMALIZATION OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""7. Negotiating Kinship""; ""I. POLITICAL MARRIAGES""; ""II. FICTIVE KINSHIP""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""8. Horse Trading and Other Material Bargains""; ""I. PASTORAL NOMADIC LIFE UNDER TURKO-MONGOL RULE""; ""II. PASTORAL NOMADIC LIFE UNDER SUI-TANG RULE""; ""III. TANG HORSE SYSTEM AND THE HORSE TRADE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""9. Breaking Bonds""; ""I. ENVIRONMENT""; ""II. PATRIMONIAL POLITICS""; ""III. RITUALS OF SEVERANCE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Conclusion: Beyond the Silk Roads""; ""I. CULTURE""

""II. POWER""""III. CONNECTIONS""; ""CODA""; ""Appendices""; ""APPENDIX A: ATTACKS ON NORTH CHINA PREFECTURES""; ""APPENDIX B: NORTH CHINA POPULATION FROM HAN THROUGH NORTHERN SONG DYNASTIES""; ""APPENDIX C: TANG NORTHERN PREFECTURES""; ""APPENDIX D: CHINESE DYNASTIES AND PERIODS MENTIONED IN TEXT""; ""APPENDIX E: NORTHERN ZHOU, SUI, AND TANG EMPERORS OF CHINA AND TURKIC RULERS OF MONGOLIA AND/OR INNER MONGOLIA""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""I. PRIMARY SOURCES""; ""II. SECONDARY SOURCES AND TRANSLATIONS""; ""Index with Chinese Character Glossary"

Sommario/riassunto

This publication challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other. The author upends the notion that inhabitants of China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different and hostile to each other.