Book
Materials on the History of Nomadic Peoples in China in 3 – 5 Cent. Issue 4. Ti and Qiangs
Еditor: Dmitriev Sergey
Москва, 2012, 496 p.
This fourth issue is the last one in the series of publications of materials on the nomadic peoples neighboring in 3 – 5 cent. on the Chinese Empire and creating their states on the territory of Northern China. Information about Ti and Qiangs (the tribes related to the Tibetans) is collected from reliable historical sources – the Chinese dynasty histories. It is the unique material for studying of their history. It also sheds light on the tumultuous history of Northern China in that period. The translation is made by one of the eminent Russian Sinologists of the 20th cent., expert in the history of nomadic peoples and distinguished translator V.S. Taskin (1917 – 1995).
The previous three. issues of “Materials on the History of Nomadic Peoples in China” that were published in 1989, 1990 and 1992 were long ago estimated by specialists at their true worth and became a bibliographical rarity.