Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea
Journal: Edinburgh University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

Explores the zoomorphic imagination and image-making of Eurasian nomads and their dynamic interactions with neighbouring sedentary empires Presents hundreds of precious objects from tombs and hoards in present-day China, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan, South Siberia, Kazakhstan, Eastern Ukraine, Bulgaria and Hungary Uses primary and secondary sources in Modern and Classical Chinese, Russian, Mongolian, Japanese and Bulgarian Unmutes the historical voices of nomads by viewing them as independent th