num_pages: 320
description: The author employs anthropology and history to analyze the relationship between China and the tribal peoples of Inner Asia. Barfield explains why, in spite of their small numbers and poorly developed economies, the tribal nomads established large empires that threatened the security of China.
language: English
title: The perilous frontier: Nomadic empires and China
titlecomplete: The perilous frontier: Nomadic empires and China (Studies in social discontinuity)
genres: Asia, Nonfiction, China, Military History, History
ratings_count: 79
publisher: B. Blackwell