Two Sons of Heaven: Studies in Sung-Liao Relations

By Jing-Shen Tao

This study of diplomatic relations between the Sung dynasty of tenth-and eleventh-century China and the Liao, invaders from Manchuria, challenges the popular belief that China always considered her neighbors as inferior barbarians in their attempt to maintain a China-centered world order.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816510512
• ISBN13: 9780816510511
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"