Xi Xia ji 西夏紀 Record of the Western Xia

by Xizhang 戴錫章 Dai

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First edition

Ten vols. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. China : Jing hua yin shu ju 京華印書局, 1924. First edition of this history of the Tangut kingdom. The Tanguts, known as the Xia or Western Xia in Chinese, ruled a powerful state on the northwestern periphery of the Chinese world from the 11th to the 13th century. As Zhao Erxun 趙爾巽 1844-1927 wrote in his Preface to our book, “even though the Xia occupied a peripheral territory,

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