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English Language Resources on the Xiongnu

(aka: "White Huns", Hunnu, Hunnen, Hsiungnu, Chanyu, Hephthalites, Ephthalites, Hunas)

Web Resources:

http://www.silk-road.com/artl/xiongnu1.shtml

http://www.asiawind.com/hakka/history.htm#xiongnu

http://drlee.org/mongol/r06.html

http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch14.htm

http://mongolia.worldvision.org.nz/mongoliaearly.html

http://www.china-contact.com/www/travel/dunhuang.html

http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h06chin.htm

http://www.kladsport.f2s.com/e_vers2.htm

http://www.kladsport.f2s.com/e_hist2.htm

http://www.silk-road.com/artl/minyaev1.shtml

http://www.seechina.com.cn/html/arts/3mtxn-e.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/CA/texts/hantxt1.html

http://www.worldwarii.com/MilitaryHistory/articles/04964_text.htm

http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/siberia.html

http://lycoskids.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0852118.html

http://art.sasquatch.com/11323/odiseos_nikko/Xuanzang/peshawertext.html

http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h09ind.htm

http://www.flick.com/onomastikon/Europe-Medieval/Huns.htm

 

Print Resources:
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Title:          The role of the tuntian (agricultural garrison) system

                in Han Xiongnu relations /

Author(s):      Brannon, Stephen.

Year:           1997

Description:    iv, 80 leaves. p.

Language:       English

SUBJECT(S)

Note(s):        Dissertation:   Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 1997.

Responsibility: Stephen Brannon.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19980112

Update:         19980112

Accession No:   OCLC:           38187890



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Title:          China and her neighbours, from ancient times to the

                Middle Ages :a collection of essays /

Author(s):      Tikhvinskii, Sergei Leonidovich. ; Perelomov, Leonard

                Sergeevich.

Publication:    Moscow : Progress Publishers,

Year:           1981

Description:    221 p. ; p., 21 cm.

Language:       English

TOC:            Introduction / S.L. Tikvinsky -- Ancient Chinese

		foreign policy and the origins of the tribute system / 	

		L.I. Duman -- Chinese relations with the Xiongnu in the 

		first to third centuries B.C./ L.I. Duman -- China and 	

		Vietnam from the third century B.C. to the third 	

		century A.D. / L.S. Perelomov -- Notes on

		Sino-Vietnamese relations in the third to tenth 

		centuries A.D. (From Chinese sources) /I.N. Mashkina -- 		

		Sino-Indian relations from ancient times to the 

		sixteenth century / A.A. Bokshchanin -- A brief account

		of Chinese relations with the countries of the South 

		Seas (from ancient times to  the sixteenth century / 

		A.A. Bokshchanin -- Notes on trade in the Ming era / 

		A.S. Martynov -- Ming policy toward the Nüzhen 

		(1402-1413)/ G.V. Melikhov.

Standard No:    LCCN:           81-196581 //r98

SUBJECT(S)

Geographic:     China -- Foreign relations -- To 1644.

Note(s):        Translation of: Kitai i sosedi v drevnosti i

                srednevekov’e./ Includes bibliographical references.

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS740.4; Dewey:          327.51

Other Titles:   Kitai i sosedi v drevnosti i srednevekov’e. English.

Responsibility: [edited by S.L. Tikhvinsky and L.S. Perelomov].

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19820712

Update:         19980801

Accession No:   OCLC:           8669104



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Author(s):       Miniaev, S

Title:           The Excavation of Xiongnu Sites in the Buryatia

                 Republic

Source:          Orientations. 26, no. 10, (1995): 44 (2 pages)

Additional Info: Pacific Communications,

Alt Journal:     Uniform Title:   Orientations (Hong Kong) Key Title:  

                     Orientations

Standard No:     ISSN:            0030-5448

OCLC No:         1774029



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Database:      PapersFirst

Database No:   CN025401063

BL Location:   DSC Stock:     98/15540

Author(s):     Psarras, S.-K.

Title:         The Xiongnu and the Later Han: A Reappraisal

Page:          82-85

Conference:    International congress; 33rd -- 1990 Aug : Toronto;

               Canada

Source:        Asian and North African studies: Contacts between

               cultures Vol 4; Eastern Asia: history and social sciences

Publisher:     Lampeter; Edwin Mellen Press; 1992

Standard No:   ISBN:          0773492062

Source Ed:     Luk, B. H. K.



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Database:      PapersFirst

Database No:   CN020398225

BL Location:   DSC Shelfmark: 3589.232000

Author(s):     Erdy, M.

Title:         An Overview of the Xiongnu Type Cauldron Finds of

               Eurasia in Three Media, with Historical Observations

Page:          379-438

Conference:    International symposium -- 1992 Nov : Naples; Italy

Source:        Archaeology of the steppes

Publisher:     Naples; Istituto Univ Orientale; 1994

Journal:       DIPARTMENTODI STUDI ASIATICI ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO

               ORIENTALE SERIES MINOR; 1994; VOL 44

Source Ed:     Genito, B.

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Database:      PapersFirst

Database No:   CN020398181

BL Location:   DSC Shelfmark: 3589.232000

Author(s):     Parlato, S.

Title:         The Saka and the Xiongnu: a Comparative Reading of

               Literary and Figurative Sources

Page:          311-330

Conference:    International symposium -- 1992 Nov : Naples; Italy

Source:        Archaeology of the steppes

Publisher:     Naples; Istituto Univ Orientale; 1994

Journal:       DIPARTMENTODI STUDI ASIATICI ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO

               ORIENTALE SERIES MINOR; 1994; VOL 44

Source Ed:     Genito, B.



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Database:      PapersFirst

Database No:   CN020398176

BL Location:   DSC Shelfmark: 3589.232000

Author(s):     Antonini, C. S.

Title:         On Nomadism in Central Asia between the Saka and the

               Xiongnu: the Archaelogical Evidence

Page:          287-310

Conference:    International symposium -- 1992 Nov : Naples; Italy

Source:        Archaeology of the steppes

Publisher:     Naples; Istituto Univ Orientale; 1994

Journal:       DIPARTMENTODI STUDI ASIATICI ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO

               ORIENTALE SERIES MINOR; 1994; VOL 44

Source Ed:     Genito, B.



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Database:      PapersFirst

Database No:   CN020398293

BL Location:   DSC Shelfmark: 3589.232000

Author(s):     Erdelyi, I.

Title:         The Settlements of Hsiung-nu

Page:          553-564

Conference:    International symposium -- 1992 Nov : Naples; Italy

Source:        Archaeology of the steppes

Publisher:     Naples; Istituto Univ Orientale; 1994

Journal:       DIPARTMENTODI STUDI ASIATICI ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO

               ORIENTALE SERIES MINOR; 1994; VOL 44

Source Ed:     Genito, B.

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Title:          War and peace with the Hsiungnu in early Han China :

		the Hsiungnu challenge (200-133 B.C.) and the origins of

		Han Wu-ti's military expansion /

Author(s):      Chang, Chun-shu, 1934- ; T‘ao, Hsi-sheng,; 1893-

Publication:    [Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan,

Year:           1979

Description:    p. 612-698, [2] folded leaves of plates ; p., 21 cm.

Language:       English

SUBJECT(S)

Descriptor:     Hsiung-nu.

Named Person:   Han Wu-ti, Emperor of China, 156-87 B.C.

Geographic:     China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.

		China -- History, Military.

		China -- History -- Invasions.

Note(s):        Cover title./ "Essays in commemoration of the eightieth

		birthday of Professor T‘ao Hsi-sheng (1979)"--Cover./ 

		"The present essay is a chapter of the author's	

		forthcoming book, From rebels to imperialists: social 

		change and military expansion in early Han China"--P 

		698./ Pages are numbered in reverse order./ 

		Includes bibliographical references (p. 612-647).

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS748

Responsibility: Chun-Shu Chang.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19990629

Update:         19990629

Accession No:   OCLC:           41626701





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Database:      PapersFirst

Database No:   CN019699538

BL Location:   DSC Shelfmark: 1784.455000

Author(s):     Callieri, P.

Title:         Hephthalites in Margiana? New evidence from the Buddhist

               relics in Merv

Page:          391-400

Conference:    Convegno internazionale -- 1994 Nov : Rome

Source:        La Persia e l'Asia Centrale da Alessandro al X secolo

Sponsor:       Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Istituto Italiano per il

               Medio ed Estremo Oriente.

Publisher:     Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; 1996

Journal:       ATTI DEI CONVEGNI LINCEI- ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI

               0391-805X; 1996; VOL 127



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Title:          The political history of the Hunas in India.

Author(s):      Biswas, Atreyi.

Publication:    [New Delhi] Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers

Year:           1973 1971

Description:    xvi, 243 p. p., illus., maps., 22 cm.

Language:       English

Standard No:    LCCN:           73-907423 /SA

SUBJECT(S)

Descriptor:     Ephthalites.

Geographic:     India -- History -- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D.

Note(s):        Bibliography: p. [219]-236.

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS451; Dewey:          934/.07

Responsibility: With a foreword by A. L. Basham.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19760727

Update:         19970417

Accession No:   OCLC:           1683359



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Title:          The Hunas in India.

Author(s):      Thakur, Upendra.

Publication:    Varanasi, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office,

Edition:        [1st ed.]

Year:           1967

Description:    xvi, 344 p. p., 23 cm.

Language:       English

Series:         The Chowkhamba Sanskrit studies,; v. 58;

Standard No:    LCCN:           sa 68-13845

SUBJECT(S)

Descriptor:     Ephthalites in India.

Note(s):        Bibliography: p. [299]-316.

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS432.E6

Responsibility: With a foreword by D. C. Sircar.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19691211

Update:         19970414

Accession No:   OCLC:           47673



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Title:          Peoples of the steppe :historical sources on the

		pastoral nomads of Eurasia /

Author(s):      Wright, David Curtis, 1960-

Publication:    Needham Heights, MA : Simon & Schuster,

Year:           1998

Description:    viii, 167 p. : p., map ;, 26 cm.

Language:       English

Standard No:    ISBN:           0536014671; LCCN:           99-175433

SUBJECT(S)

Descriptor:     Nomads -- Eurasia -- History -- Sources.

		Turkic peoples -- Eurasia -- History -- Sources.

		Mongols -- Eurasia -- History -- Sources.

		Scythians -- History -- Sources.

		Hsiung-nu -- History -- Sources.

Geographic:     Eurasia -- History -- Sources.

Class Descrpt:  LC:             GN590; Dewey:          305.9/0691

Responsibility: David C. Wright.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19990219

Update:         20000131

Accession No:   OCLC:           42334954



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Title:          The Hsiung-nu-Hun equation revisited /

Author(s):      Wright, David Curtis, 1960-

Publication:    Bloomington, Ind. : Eurolingua,

Year:           1997

Description:    p. [77]-112 ; p., 28 cm.

Language:       English

SUBJECT(S)

Descriptor:     Hsiung-nu.

Huns.

Note(s):        Caption title./ "Offprint, Eurasian studies yearbook

		... 69 (1997)"--Cover./ Includes bibliographical

		references (p.108-112).

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS25

Other Titles:   Eurasian studies yearbook.

Responsibility: by David Curtis Wright.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19981020

Update:         19981020

Accession No:   OCLC:           40142198



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Title:          The Hsiung-Nu menace and the Han expansion /

Author(s):      Tsao, Wen-Yen

Publication:    [s.l.] : [s.n.] ,

Year:           1971

Description:    35-86 p. ; p., 31 cm.

Language:       English

Series:         Chinese Culture ;; 12, no. 1;

Abstract:       This essay is the outcome of a substantial part of the

                work "A survey of foreign invasions and Chinese 

		Expansionism"...(p.35).

SUBJECT(S)

Descriptor:     China -- History -- Han Dynasty, 202 B.C. - 200 A.D.

Hsiung-nu.

Note(s):        Reprint of article by Wen-Yen Tsao from "Chinese

                Culture", v. XII, No. 1, March 1971.

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS754

Responsibility: by Wen-Yen Tsao

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19940815

Update:         19960623

Accession No:   OCLC:           30950930



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Title:          Pan Ku, the Hsiung-nu and Han shu 94 /

Author(s):      Tinios, Pantelis Ellis.

Publication:    Ann Arbor ; University of Michigan,

Year:           1988

Description:    iv, 236 p. p.

Language:       English

SUBJECT(S)

Geographic:     China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.

Note(s):        Includes bibliographical references./ Dissertation:  

                Thesis (Ph. D.--University of Michigan, 1988./ Reproduction:  

		Photocopy./ Ann Arbor, Mich. :/ University Microfilms 

		International,/1993./ 21 cm.

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS748

Responsibility: by Pantelis Ellis Tinios.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19931103

Update:         19931103

Accession No:   OCLC:           29240185



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Title:          The rise of the medieval Hsiung-nu :the biography of 		

		Liu Yüan /

Author(s):      Honey, David B.

Publication:    Bloomington, Ind. : Research Institute for Inner Asian

                Studies,

Year:           1990

Description:    99 p. : p., ill. ;, 25 cm.

Language:       English

Series:         Papers on Inner Asia,; no. 15;

Standard No:    Series ISSN:    0893-1860 ;; LCCN: 91-129626

SUBJECT(S)

Named Person:   Liu, Yüan, d. 310.

Geographic:     China -- History -- Chin dynasty, 265-419.

		China -- History -- Five Hu and the Sixteen kingdoms, 		

		304-439.

Note(s):        Includes bibliographical references (p. [89]-99).

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS748.4

Responsibility: David B. Honey.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19920605

Update:         19931208

Accession No:   OCLC:           26034835



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Title:          Steppenvölker :

Hunnen, Awaren, Magyaren /

Author(s):      Fodor, István. ; Garam, Éva. ; Kiss, Attila. ;

                Ruprechtsberger, Erwin M. ; (Erwin Maria)

Publication:    Linz : [Stadtmuseum Linz-Nordico],

Year:           1985

Description:    36 p. : p., ill. ;, 20 cm.

Language:       English

Series:         Katalog des Stadtmuseums Linz ;; Nr. 42; Variation:    

                 Katalog ... des Stadtmuseums Linz-Nordico ;; Nr. 42.

SUBJECT(S)

Descriptor:     Art, Prehistoric -- Hungary -- Exhibitions.

		Magyars.

		Huns.

		Avars.

Named Corp:     Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum -- Exhibitions.

Geographic:     Hungary -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.

Note(s):        Catalog of an exhibition held at Stadtmuseum

		Linz-Nordico, Nov. 8-Dec. 1, 1985 and at Prähistorische 

		Staatssammlung München, Jan. 31-Apr. 27, 1986./

		"Ausstellung des Ungarischen Nationalmuseums 			

		Budapest"-- Cover./Includes bibliographies..

Responsibility: Katalogtexte, István Fodor, Éva Garam, Attila Kiss ;

                Redaktion, Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger.

More Corp Auth: Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum. ; Stadtmuseum Linz. ;

                Prähistorische Staatssammlung (Bavaria, Germany)

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19910514

Update:         19950608

Accession No:   OCLC:           23925296



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Title:          Pan Ku, the Hsiung-nu and Han shu 94 /

Author(s):      Tinios, Pantelis Ellis.

Year:           1988

Description:    iv, 236 leaves. p.

Language:       English

SUBJECT(S)

Named Person:   Pan, Ku, 32-92. Han shu. 94.

Geographic:     China -- Foreign relations -- To 1644.

		China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.

Note(s):        Includes bibliographical references (leaves 231-236)./

                Dissertation:   Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of 	Michigan, 1988./

Reproduction:   Photocopy./ Ann Arbor, Mich. :/ University 

		Microfilms International,/ 1989./ 21 cm.

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS748.P243

Responsibility: by Pantelis Ellis Tinios.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19900619

Update:         19950703

Accession No:   OCLC:           21885165



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Title:          The Cambridge history of early Inner Asia /

Author(s):      Sinor, Denis.

Publication:    Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge

                University Press,

Year:           1990

Description:    x, 518 p. : p., maps ;, 24 cm.

Language:       English

TOC:            Introduction : the concept of Inner Asia / Denis Sinor

		-- The geographic setting / Robert N. Taaffe -- Inner 		

		Asia at the dawn of history / A.P. Okladnikov -- The 		

		Scythians and Sarmatians / A.I. Melyukova -- The 		

		Hsiung-nu / Ying-Shih Yü -- Indo-Europeans in Inner 		

		Asia / A.K. Narain -- The Hun period / 	Denis Sinor -- 		

		The Avars / Samuel Szádeczky-Kardoss -- The peoples of 		

		the Russian forest belt / Peter B. Golden -- The 		

		peoples of the south Russian steppes / Peter B. Golden 		

		-- The establishment and dissolution of the Türk empire 		

		/ Denis Sinor -- The Uighurs / Colin Mackerras -- The 		

		Karakhanids and early Islam / Peter B. Golden -- Early 		

		and medieval Tibet / Helmut Hoffman --The forest 		

		peoples of Manchuria : Kitans and Jurchens / Herbert 		

		Franke.

Standard No:    ISBN:           0521243041; LCCN:           88-18887

SUBJECT(S)

Geographic:     Asia, Central -- History.

Note(s):        Includes index./ Bibliography: p. 424-494.

Class Descrpt:  LC:             DS329.4; Dewey:          958

Responsibility: edited by Denis Sinor.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19880524

Update:         19950422

Accession No:   OCLC:           18070387



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Title:          The Hunnic invansions.

Publication:    Peterborough, N.H. : Cobblestone Publishing,

Year:           1991

Description:    49 p. : p., ill., map ;, 23 cm.

Language:       English

Series:         Calliope : world history for young people ;; v. 2, no.

                1, September/October 1991.;

TOC:            Who were the Huns? / Rosalie F. Baker -- Breaching the

                great wall of China / Bruce Watson -- The Hephthalites 		

		and the Persians / Sylvia Whitman -- The Hunas in India 		

		/ Robert D. Dan Souci -- Attila! / Duane Damon.

SUBJECT(S)

Descriptor:     Huns -- Juvenile literature.

		Huns -- Warfare -- Juvenile literature.

Named Person:   Attila, d. 453 -- Juvenile literature.

Geographic:     Asia, Central -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Note(s):        Cover title./ September/October 1991 issue of Calliope

                magazine./ Calliope : world history for young people ISSN: 		

		1050-7086./

                Includes bibliographical references (p. 48).

Class Descrpt:  Dewey:          939.6

Other Titles:   Calliope.; September/October 1991.

Document Type:  Book

Entry:          19990503

Update:         20000730

Accession No:   OCLC:           41291509

Compiled 9/18/00 by the Barbarian Librarian