Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368 (The Cambridge History of China: Vol. 6)
Contributors: Denis C. Twitchett (Editor); Herbert Franke (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780521243315
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; History: World; China - History; History - General History; China; Medieval; Asia - China; History / Medieval; History
First sentence: The founding of the Liao dynasty at the beginning of the tenth century opened a second period of extensive foreign dominance in China, a period that would last for almost half a millennium and that reached its climax with the conquest by the Mongols of all of China in 1279.