Liao hen wu zhong 遼痕五種 Five Works on the Remnants of the Liao

by Renheng 黄任恒 Huang, ed

$1,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Six vols. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. China : 1925. Five works by the same editor containing information on historical sources, with original texts, from the Liao period. The Liao empire was ruled by the Mongolic-speaking Khitan people between 916 and 1125. They controlled much of what is now northern China, Mongolia, and surrounding territories. The empire had its own written language, but its ethnically diverse population

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