Battlefronts real and imagined : war, border, and identity in the Chinese middle period /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wyatt, Don J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Don J. Wyatt
  • Fathoming Consort Xian: negotiated power in the Liang, Chen, and Sui dynasties / Sherry J. Mou
  • Provincial autonomy and frontier defense and in late Tang: the case of the Lulong Army / David A. Graff
  • The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao border / Peter Lorge
  • In pursuit of the great peace: Wang Dan and the early Song evasion of the "just war" doctrine / Don J. Wyatt
  • Hidden time, hidden space: crossing borders with occult ritual in the Song military / M. A. Butler
  • Frustrated empires: the Song-Tangut Xia war of 1038-44 / Michael C. McGrath
  • "Treacherous factions:" shifting frontier alliances in the breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese relations on the eve of the 1075 border war / James A. Anderson
  • From battlefields to counties: war, border, and state power in Southern Song Huainan / Ruth Mostern
  • People in the middle: Uyghurs in the northwest frontier zone / Michael C. Brose.