Dangerous Border. Nomadic Empires and China

The book is devoted to the two thousandths of the history of China"s relations with its northern neighbors - nomadic tribes of Central Asia. The author theoretically justifies the cyclic model of these relations, in which the state-political history of nomads appears inextricably related to the processes of domestic political development in China. He proves that the phenomenon of nomadic statehood in the eastern part of Central Asia was due to the need to create an effective system of exploitation of the nomads of economic resources of Chinese states. Particular attention is paid to the history of the Mongolian Empire, which was, according to the author, not a product of the long evolution of the steppe imperial tradition, but an abnormal deviation from the cyclic model. Historical evidence is analyzed in the light of modern socioantrophic views.
For historians, anthropologists, sociologists, cultural scientists, as well as all those interested in the problems of intercivilizational and intercultural dialogue