[LINK] Two Far Outliers Links

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The always-interesting Far Outliers blog has recently posted two fascinating recent book excerpts dealing with events in East Asia in the first millennium CE.

• In "Effects of Tang Imperialism on Its Eastern Neighbors" examines how the Tang dynasty's 7th century invasion of the Korean peninsula led to Japanese military intervention on behalf of the state of Paekche, eventually leading to the adoption of Chinese political and economic structures in the name of self-defense both in Japan and in Korea.


• "Early Japan's Peaceful Foragers, Violent Farmers" takes a look at how the replacement of the hunter-gatherer Jomon culture--likely related to the modern Ainu--by the agrarian Yayoi culture that developed into modern Japan led to an upsurge of violence in the Japanese archipelago, as resource scarcities set the new communities upon each other.