On the 'Raw' and the 'Cooked' Barbarians of Imperial China

Inner Asia

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-168

  Fiskesjö, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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