China's encounters on the south and southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia /

China's encounters on the south and southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia / edited by James A. Anderson, John K. Whitmore. - 1 online resource (441 pages). - Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 3, Southeast Asia ; volume 22 . - Handbuch der Orientalistik. Dritte Abteilung, Sudostasien ; 22. Bd. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Borderlands--History.--China, Southwest
Borderlands--History.--China, Southeast


China--Relations.


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