Sanping Chen is an independent scholar.
Foreword: Old Wine in New Bottles, by Victor H. Mair
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Legacy of the Tuoba Xianbei: The Tang Dynasty
Chapter 2. From Mulan to Unicorn
Chapter 3. Brotherly Matters and the Canine Image: The Invasion of "Barbarian" Tongues
Chapter 4. The Huns and the Bulgars: The Chinese Chapter
Chapter 5. The Mystery of the "White-Drake" Oracle: The Iranian Shadows
Chapter 6. Son of Heaven and Son of God
Chapter 7. Bai Juyi and Central Asia
Appendix. Turkic or Proto-Mongolian? A Note on the Tuoba Language
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Sanping Chen is an independent scholar.