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China's encounters on the south and southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia
Title
China's encounters on the south and southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia / edited by James A. Anderson, John K. Whitmore.
ISBN
9789004282483
9789004218901
Publication
Leiden : Brill, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 427 pages) : maps.
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Includes index.
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Summary
China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia discusses the mountainous territory between lowland China and Southeast Asia, what we term the Dong world, and varied encounters by China with this world's many elements. The essays describe such encounters over the past two millennia and note various asymmetric relations that have resulted therefrom. Local populations, indigenous chiefs, state officials, and rulers have all acted to shape this frontier, especially after the Mongol incursions of the thirteenth century drastically shifted it. This process has moved from the alliances of the Dong world to the indirect rule of the Tusi (native official) age to the Qing and recent Gaitu Guiliu efforts at direct rule by the state, placing regular officials in charge there. The essays detail the complexities of this frontier through time, space, and personality, particularly in those instances, as today on land and sea, when China elects to pursue an aggressive policy in this direction. Contributors include: Brantly Womack, Kenneth MacLean, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Bradley Davis, Jaymin Kim, Alexander Ong, Joseph Dennis, Sun Laichen, John K. Whitmore, Kathlene Baldanza, Kenneth M. Swope, Michael Brose, James A. Anderson, Liam Kelley, and Catherine Churchman.
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Brill's companions to Asian studies online.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2020
Series
Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 3, Southeast Asia ; v. 22
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preliminary Material
Introduction: “The Fiery Frontier and the Dong World”
1 Where to Draw the Line? The Chinese Southern Frontier in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries / Catherine Churchman
2 Constructing Local Narratives: Spirits, Dreams, and Prophecies in the Medieval Red River Delta / Liam C. Kelley
3 Man and Mongols: the Dali and Đại Việt Kingdoms in the Face of the Northern Invasions / James A. Anderson
4 Yunnan’s Muslim Heritage / Michael C. Brose
5 Gunsmoke: The Ming Invasion of Đại Việt and the Role of Firearms in Forging the Southern Frontier / Kenneth M. Swope
6 A State Agent at Odds with the State: Lin Xiyuan and the Ming Recovery of the Four Dong / Kathlene Baldanza
7 Imperial Ideal Compromised: Northern and Southern Courts Across the New Frontier in the Early Yuan Era / Laichen Sun
8 Northern Relations for Đại Việt: China Policy in the Age of Lê Thánh Tông (r. 1460–1497) / John K. Whitmore
9 Projecting Legitimacy in Ming Native Domains / Joseph Dennis
10 Royal Refuge and Heterodoxy: The Vietnamese Mạc Clan in Great Qing’s Southern Frontier, 1677–1730 / Alexander Ong
11 The Rule of Ritual: Crimes and Justice in Qing-Vietnamese Relations During the Qianlong Period (1736–1796) / Jaymin Kim
12 Volatile Allies: Two Cases of Powerbrokers in the Nineteenth-Century Vietnamese-Chinese Borderlands / Bradley C. Davis
13 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
14 From Land to Water: Fixing Fluid Frontiers and The Politics of Lines in the South China/Eastern Sea / Kenneth MacLean
15 Asymmetric Structure and Culture in China’s Relations with Its Southern Neighbors / Brantly Womack
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Index.
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