The Nan-chao Kingdom and T’ang China’s Southwestern Frontier

Charles Backus

Cambridge

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Cambridge University Press

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1981

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First Edition.

23cm x 16cm. xii, 224 pages. Green cloth, silver lettering, illustrated jacket.

Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions. “This book provides the first comprehensive Western-language account of the long and eventful relationship between China and the Nan-chao kingdom, an independent political and cultural entity based in the Ta-li plain region of modern Yunnan province during the eighth and ninth centuries.”

Very minor foxing to edges. Light wear to jacket. Slight discolouration to jacket spine. Light foxing to jacket verso. Very Good Condition.

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