Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire (Faculty of Asian Studies Monographs, 4)

Written by noted scholar of the Three Kingdoms and Later Han China, Rafe de Crespigny. This volume discusses the policies and history of the later Han dynasty in relation to its northern rivals. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1984 Table of Contents Maps and Tables Preface 1 The Government and Geography of the Northern Frontier of Later Han 1-53 The Qiang Tribes and the Empire of Han: the establishment of Chinese authority 3 The Qiang Tribes and the Empire of Han: frontier wars and the great rebellions 50-150 AD 4 The Qiang Tribes and the Empire of Han: make a desert and call it peace 150-220 AD 5 The Xlongnu, the Former Han Dynasty, and the government of Wang Mang 6 Division and Conquest: Xiongnu and Han in the first century AD 7 Ashes of Success: Xiongnu, Xianbi and Han 90-150 AD 8 The End of Empire in the North 9 The Wuhan People and the Empire of Han 10 The Causes and Consequences of Failure Chronology of the Northern Frontier in the First Two Centuries AD Notes Bibliography Index By Rafe De Crespigny. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [561]-593.