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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: nomadic leviathan
    sub title: a critique of the Sinocentric paradigm
  name:
    name part: Munkh-Erdene, Lhamsuren
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 524 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "Devised to legitimize the Republic of China's claim over Inner Asia, the Sinocentric paradigm stems from the Open Door Policy and Chinese nationalism. Advanced against the conquest theory, and rationalized as the pathfinding ecological theory, it is an evolutionary materialist scheme that became the vision of history. Exposing the initial agenda of this paradigm and revealing its fundamental contradictions, The Nomadic Leviathan debunks it as a myth. Resurrecting the conquest theory, and reinforcing it with the idea of extrahuman transportation, this book places pastoralism at the origin of the state and civilization, and the Eurasian steppe at the center of human history; the political emerges as the primary and fundamental order defining the social and economic"--
  table of contents: The habit of thought -- The state before the Sinocentric paradigm -- Inner Asia before the Sinocentric paradigm -- The Sinocentric scheme : aim, origins, and theory -- Kinship turn and evolutionary schemes -- Beyond evolutionary materialism : the military pathway -- The Sinocentric paradigm in (frontier) history -- The nomadic leviathan : extrahuman transportation and the military constitution -- The tribal inner Asia : Biblical ethnology.
  note: by Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ac-----
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    geographic: Asia, Central
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Asia, Central
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    geographic: Asia, Central
    topic: Relations
    geographic: China
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Asia, Central
  subject:
    topic: Nomads
    geographic: Asia, Central
  subject:
    topic: Feudalism
    geographic: Asia, Central
  subject:
    topic: Nationalism
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: State, The
  subject:
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    topic: Feudalism
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: Nationalism
  subject:
    topic: Nomads
  subject:
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: State, The
  subject:
    geographic: Central Asia
  subject:
    geographic: China
  classification: DS329.4 .M87 2023
  classification: 958
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Nomadic leviathan
    name:
      name part: Munkh-Erdene, Lhamsuren.
    origin info:
      publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
    identifier: (DLC) 2023003884
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Inner Asia book series ; no. 16
  identifier: 9789004543881
  identifier: 9004543880
  identifier: 9789004546516
  identifier: 2023003883
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR
    record creation date: 230211
    record change date: 20250318223343.1
    record identifier: in00004749621
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng