Diplomacy and Trade in the Chinese World, 589-1276

liao 611 807- 826 9 827- 846 9 847- 866 0 867- 886 1 887- 906 0 907- 926 12 927- 946 77 947- 966 2 967- 986 15 987-1006 7 1007-1 ...

612 liao 730: 12 horses. 907: fine horses. 908: fine horses. 909: 100 horses. 926: 32 horses. 927: fine horses. 932: 203 horses. ...

liao 613 Furs 619: sable furs. 623: sable furs. 937: sable furs. 940: fox furs. 951: sable furs. Meat 1005: deer tongues. 1089: ...

614 liao Of crystal 909: horse trappings ornamented with rock crystal. Of precious stone 940: jade horse trappings. 951: jade ho ...

liao 615 Textiles Silks 908: brocade. 942: pongee. 1005: brocade. Garments 908: caps embroidered with golden flowers. 975: garme ...

616 liao tsung. These were chiefly luxury goods. Some of them were of foreign origin, such as the elephant tusks, rhinoceros hor ...

chin 617 Chin The Jurchen were a Tungusic-speaking people, ancestors of the Man- chus, who originally lived as hunters and fishe ...

618 chin In the 12th month (Dec./Jan., 928) of the year 927, Jurchen envoys to the Khitan court offered gifts (Liao shih 70:3a). ...

chin 619 offer regional objects (Sung shih 1:10b; Sung hui-yao kao, ts’e 196; Hsü Tzu-chih t’ung-chien ch’ang-pien p.20). On Feb ...

620 chin In the 8th month (Sep./Oct.) of 988, a Jurchen chief offered gifts to the Liao court (Liao shih 70:8a). In 989, a Jurch ...

chin 621 On Feb.12, 1014, Jurchen offered gifts to the Liao court (Liao shih 15:7b). In the 3rd month (Mar./Apr.) and on May 10, ...

622 chin On Jan.4, 1100, Jurchen envoys to the Liao court offered gifts (Liao shih 26:5b). On Feb.9, 1103, envoys from Jurchen c ...

chin 623 Chinese envoys to accompany him. These congratulated him on his victories (Sung shih 22:3a; Chin shih 2:14a-14b). On Se ...

624 chin to the war. It had to agree to paying Chin the same annual tribute it previously had rendered Liao, i.e. 200,000 ounces ...

chin 625 three pounds of tea. On his return to the Sung court, the chief envoy reported on what he had noticed of Chin fortifica ...

626 chin outbreak of the war was briefly postponed by an intensive diplomatic exchange. On Feb.27, 1126, Ch’in-tsung sent a Chie ...

chin 627 but this did not stop the diplomatic intercourse. In the 3rd month (April) of 1128, Kao-tsung sent an envoy to the Chin ...

628 chin In the 1st month (Feb./Mar.) of 1134, Kao-tsung sent envoys to the Chin court (Sung shih 27:16b). On Feb.9, 1135, Emper ...

chin 629 On Sep.17, 1139, Kao-tsung sent envoys to the Chin court to congratulate on the New Year’s Day of Jan.22, 1140 (Sung sh ...

630 chin annually would congratulate the Chin emperor on his birthday and on the New Year’s Day. (Sung shih 29:17b, 18a, 18b, 19 ...