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Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study): China in Eurasian Late Antiquity
Thursday, 1 December 2016,  4:30pm -  6:00pm

Location: Brower Commons A

 

Abstract: After the fall of the Han dynasty and the dissolution of the Roman Empire much of the then known world changed drastically. Between 350 and 650 in both East and West new polities emerged, communication routes across Eurasia became more active, and eventually new political orders were established. In Chinese historiography the period between the Han and Sui-Tang dynasties has remained ill-defined and sits awkwardly within a broader geopolitical context and attempt to define this period in terms of Eurasian rather than simply Chinese history.