Conférence de Khodadad Rezakhani : China and the "West"

Conférence de Khodadad Rezkhani (Académie Autrichienne des Sciences - OAW (Vienne, Autriche))

dans le cadre du cycle de conférences “The Orient’s East. Iran and Eurasia in the First Millennium CE”

The final session will reverse the point of view, and propose the Chinese perspective towards its own “West”. From the “father” of Chinese historiography, Sima Qian, and the narration of the rise of the first Chinese empire under the Qin dynasty, we will see how China developed its imagination of its frontier, its peoples, and the development of the “Silk Road”; for example, the “Western Barbarians” in the Hu Han Shu, and the various names of Western countries and regions – Anxi, Da Qin, Fulin, etc. Again, crossing into the early medieval period, we will see an encounter between the Chinese and Islamic worlds through the Tang Protectorate of the West and the Battle of Talas.

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