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Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires. By Randolph B. Ford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xx, 369 pp. ISBN: 9781108473958 (cloth).
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2021
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1 Note, though, that the barbarians who emerged as the leaders of Western Europe, the Franks, also falsified a narrative of descent from the Trojans, thereby creating a genealogical link to Rome without compromising their Frankish identity. I thank Anthony Kaldellis for this insight.
2 Whether this changed for Sogdians after the An Lushan Rebellion (755–63) is a matter of debate that I shall not dwell on here, but my position is that it did not.
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