The Galloping Conqueror of the Grassland: Liao·xixia·jin·yuan

This volume is written by Masaaki Sugiyama, an expert in this research field in Japanese academic circles, and highly recommended by Professor Yao of Fudan University. It directly involves the history of about five hundred years from the second half of the 9th century to the end of the 14th century. The author does not present the history of China from the 10th to the 14th century AD according to the main line of historical changes of "Tang-Five Dynasties-Two Songs-Yuan" as Chinese people are usually accustomed to. On the contrary, the Xia, Liao and Jin, which many people take for granted as blocking and destroying the great cause of national unification that was supposed to be achieved by the two Song Dynasties, no longer just appear in music. Several discordant variations or interludes in the main play all play an active and positive role in this book, which runs through the process of Chinese history from the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. The author believes that the entire history of the 500 or even 600 years covered in this book is the 600 years of encounter and confrontation between the world history of Eurasia and the history of China.