Heinz-Murray 2E.book

68 Part I: Land and Language malaria. When he ran short, he asked his house guest, who was also a scholar, to go to the apotheca ...

Box 2.2 Simple Chinese Logographs in Ancient and Modern Form sun/day rain river/water fish man (i.e., human being) woman mouth e ...

70 Part I: Land and Language time). Let’s look at how this worked using English rather than Chinese. In Eng- lish the word “sun” ...

Chapter 2 Tongues, Texts, and Scripts 71 nese characters have become standard throughout mainland China, but most Chinese commun ...

72 Part I: Land and Language trasts with the case of China, which at most periods of its history was a rather down-to-earth, wor ...

Chapter 2 Tongues, Texts, and Scripts 73 most practical clerical functions, a kind of inferior shorthand. But in this cen- tury ...

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75 Par t II Outsiders 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 4TRIBAL PEOPLE ...

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77 ome groups, as we will see in chapter 4, want to be outsiders. Others, driven by complex motives, want to be insiders, or at ...

78 Part II: Outsiders We turn first to Central Asia (chapter 3), whose people inhabit an arid region of grasslands and deserts a ...

Part II: Outsiders 79 princes into exile. Eventually other Turkic groups conquered Anatolia and formed the Ottoman Empire, which ...

80 Part II: Outsiders Chapter 4 turns to others who, in danger of being captured by growing states, sought only to keep their di ...

81 3 CENTRAL ASIA, XINJIANG, AND TIBET ...

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83 n 126 B.C.E. an emissary of the Chinese Han Empire arrived in the Central Asian Yuezhi kingdom after escaping 10 years of cap ...

84 Part II: Outsiders that followed, trade in horses, silk, gold, and other precious goods thrived, and lines of communication, ...

Chapter 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 85 London and Washington at the time were willing to consider as they launched yet a ...

86 Part II: Outsiders center of the Byzantine Empire, Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora reigned there and cloaked themselve ...

Chapter 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet 87 when possible. Silk played an important role in this exchange, as did horses. Chi ...