Before and Beyond Pingcheng: The Xianbei in Inner Mongolia (4th-6th Centuries)

Editors: Annette L. Juliano / Judith A. Lerner

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Publication year: April, 2026

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Annette L JULIANO and Judith A. LERNER, “The Puzzle of the Yihe-Nur Cemetery”

I. Nomads and the Northern Wei

Sören STARK, “Xianbei, Tegreg, and Rouran-Abar: Yihe-Nur and the Nomadic World

of Inner Asia between the Second and the Fifth/Early Sixth Century CE”

Scott PEARCE, “The Xianbei in Their Historical Setting”

Judith A. LERNER, “Cauldrons”

Chin-Yin TSENG, “The Mobile Court of Pingcheng”

II. Reaching the Red Mountains: The Xianbei and the Afterlife

Annette L JULIANO, “Tombs and Their Furnishings”

Annette L. JULIANO, “Pushou”

III. Luxury Objects

Sarah LAURSEN, “Adorned: Nomadic Gold and Bronze”

Sören STARK, “Belts and Pectorals as Elite Markers Across Second to Fifth Century

Eurasia”

Judith A. LERNER, “Luxury Objects: Local and from the West”

Annette L. JULIANO and Judith A. LERNER, “The Gold Chin Strap”

Annette L. JULIANO and Judith A. LERNER, “The Gilt Silver Earred Cup”

IV. Where the Xianbei Buddhists?

Annette L. JULIANO, “Early Buddhist Images from Inner Mongolia”

Annette L. JULIANO, “The Pointed Pectoral”

Conclusion

Annette L JULIANO and Judith A. LERNER, “The Power of Place: Yihe-Nur and the

Xianbei”