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Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires. By Randolph B. Ford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xx, 369 pp. ISBN: 9781108473958 (cloth).

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Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires. By Randolph B. Ford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xx, 369 pp. ISBN: 9781108473958 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2021

Shao-yun Yang
Shao-yun Yang*
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Denison University
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , August 2021 , pp. 824 - 827
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1 Note, though, that the barbarians who emerged as the leaders of Western Europe, the Franks, also falsified a narrative of descent from the Trojans, thereby creating a genealogical link to Rome without compromising their Frankish identity. I thank Anthony Kaldellis for this insight.

2 Whether this changed for Sogdians after the An Lushan Rebellion (755–63) is a matter of debate that I shall not dwell on here, but my position is that it did not.

3 Skaff, Jonathan Karam, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors: Culture, Power, and Connections, 580–800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 9–10CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 52–60.

4 For example, Yang, Shao-yun, “‘What Do Barbarians Know of Gratitude?’—The Stereotype of Barbarian Perfidy and Its Uses in Tang Foreign Policy Rhetoric,” Tang Studies 31 (2013): 28–74Google Scholar.

5 Rogers, Michael C., “The Myth of the Battle of the Fei River (A.D. 383),” T'oung Pao 54, no. 1 (1968): 50–72CrossRefGoogle Scholar.