CHIN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Khitan Scripts, Shanxi, Liao River
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Conquest dynasties: the khitan state of liao and the jurchen state of jin. Highlighted in red means artwork that proffessor talks about for a long time, and will most likely be on final. 1 painting of a khitan rest stop while traveling, khitan painter, 10th century(first slide) Very funny and distinctive: all of head is shaven except for a ponytail. Abaoji of the yelu clan, united 8-10 khitan tribes to form a federation, then secured. Shows the yangtze, yellow rivers, great wall, and the perimeter of china. Very early map that describes china and parts beyond china. Has etchings of the culture of outside barbarian territories. Proto-mongol (primitive) cultural group from northeastern inner mongolia area. Khitan is a linguistic reconstruction from the chinese word qidan . 2 map of the chinese and the barbarians, song, 1137 (rubbing of the hua yi tu from library of.
