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..., are not very clearly demarcated, nor is there much consideration of how the similarities originated. Skaff refers to a long history of “entanglements” and politico-cultural one-upmanship, and he not unreasonably points out that the problem of origins is beyond the chronological scope of his book. Nevertheless...

...Jonathan Karam Skaff Although Wang's discussion of the Tang court and frontier officials could have been more balanced, he succeeds in providing an alternative to the China-centered model of foreign relations. He also deserves credit for deepening our knowledge of Tang foreign policy and Asian...

...Jonathan Karam Skaff The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road . By Xin Wen . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2023 . xi, 389 pp. ISBN: 9780691237831 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Xin Wen's first book is a study of the eastern...

...Jonathan Karam Skaff Although Brose has not issued the final word about the Uyghurs in Yuan China, he has written a pathbreaking book that offers valuable insights into identity and power in the Mongol Empire. Subjects and Masters should be an essential addition to the libraries of all...

... and foreign relations during the writing of the Jin shu . For that context, Ford could have benefited from engaging more deeply with the work of Jonathan Skaff and this reviewer. He does cite both (e.g., pp. 18–19, 137) as recognizing the persistence of xenophobic rhetoric in the Tang, but he does not take...

... observes that during high Qing, “at least for a time wu dislodged wen from its exclusive position at the pinnacle of political prestige and shared the limelight on a more nearly equal basis” (p. 281). The chapters by David A. Graff, Jonathan Karam Skaff, and Don J. Wyatt are superb. Graff's...

... that “China” had to be, but my premise is that China, the nation-state that includes not just the core eighteen provinces but Manchuria, Tibet, and Xinjiang as well, in fact did not. The flaws in the teleological paradigm have been remarked upon by a range of recent scholars. Jonathan Karam Skaff ( 2012...

... Amartuvshin, pp. 75–83); “Empire Building before the Mongols” (Jonathan K. Skaff and Honeychurch, pp. 85–89); “Genghis Khan Emerges” (senbike Togan, pp. 91–95); “Genghis Khan” (Rossabi, pp. 99–109); “Xi Xia: The First Mongol Conquest” (Ruth W. Dunnell, pp. 153–59); “The Mongolian Western Empire” (David Morgan...