Notes
1 Waldron, The Great Wall of China.
2 Di Cosmo et al., Empires and Exchanges, 1–5.
3 Robinson, In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire and Ming China and its Allies.
4 Waldron, 140–164.
5 Serruys, The Horse Fairs.
6 Skaff, “Tang China’s Horse Power,” 34–59.
7 Andrade, The Gunpowder Age, 55–74.
8 Dardess, Ming China, 1368–1644.
9 Swope, “Manifesting Awe” and The Military Collapse, 208–18.
10 Brook, Troubled Empire, 238–59.
11 Abramson, Ethnic Identity in Tang China, xx–xxii, 29; Pines, “Limits of all Under Heaven,” 89–92.
12 Yang, The Way of The Barbarians, 3–23.