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Title China's encounters on the south and southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia / edited by James A. Anderson, John K. Whitmore.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, [2015]
2015

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Description 1 online resource (441 pages).
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Series Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 3, Southeast Asia ; volume 22
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Dritte Abteilung, Sudostasien ; 22. Bd.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Shifting the southern frontier -- Where to draw the line? The Chinese southern frontier in the fifth and sixth centuries / Catherine Churchman -- Constructing local narratives: spirits, dreams, and prophecies in the medieval Red River Delta / Liam Kelley -- Man and Mongols: the Dali and Dai Viet kingdoms in the face of the northern invasions / James Anderson -- Yunnan's Muslim heritage / Michael Brose -- Gunsmoke: the Ming invasion of Dai Viet and the role of firearms in forging the southern frontier / Kenneth Swope -- A state agent at odds with the state: Lin Xiyuan and the Ming recovery of the Four Dong / Kathlene Baldanza -- Part II. Shaping the southern frontier -- Imperial ideal compromised: northern and southern courts across the new frontier in the early yuan era / Sun Laichen -- Northern relations for dai viet: china policy in the age of Le Thanh Tong (r. 1460-1497) / John Whitmore -- Projecting legitimacy in Ming native domains / Joseph Dennis -- Royal refuge and heterodoxy: the Vietnamese Mac Clan in Great Qing's southern frontier, 1677-1730 / Alexander On -- The rule of ritual: crimes and justice in Qing-Vietnamese relations during the Qianlong Period (1736-1796) / Jaymin Kim -- Volatile allies: two cases of powerbrokers in the nineteenth century Vietnamese-Chinese borderlands / Bradley Davis -- Depicting life in the twentieth-century Sino-Tibetan borderlands: local histories and modernities in the career and photography of Zhuang Xueben (1909-1984) / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa -- From land to water: fixing fluid frontiers and the politics of lines in the South China/Eastern Sea / Kenneth MacLean -- Asymmetric structure and culture in China's relations with its southern neighbors / Brantly Womack.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Borderlands -- China, Southwest -- History.
Borderlands -- China, Southeast -- History.
China -- Relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Anderson, James, 1963- editor, author.
Whitmore, John K., editor, author.
Other Form: Print version: China's encounters on the south and southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia. Leiden : Brill, [2015] Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 3, Southeast Asia ; volume 22 9789004218901 (DLC)10985883
ISBN 9789004218901 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004282483 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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