Things Surrounding the Two Song Dynasties

The three hundred years from AD 960 to 1279 are known as the Two Song Dynasties in history. But these three hundred years were never a one-man show of the Song Dynasty. To the north of the Great Wall, the Hexi Corridor, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the southwestern mountains, and the East Asian seas, regimes that were not under the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty were building countries, fighting wars, making marriages, doing business, and changing dynasties on their own. To the Eurasian continent at that time, the face of China was often not the Song Dynasty, but the Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongolia. The world outside the walls is just as exciting, sometimes even more exciting. This book tells the stories of these neighbors.