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This Element reassesses the standard cosmopolitanism-to-xenophobia narrative of late Tang China, presenting a more empirically-grounded and nuanced interpretation of the Tang empire's foreign relations after 755.

This Element presents a broad and revisionist analysis of early Tang China's relations with the rest of the Eurasian world and argues that idealizing the Tang as exceptionally "cosmopolitan" limits our ability to think both critically and globally about its actions and policies as an empire.