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"The scope of the southwestern frontier in imperial China includes present-day Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and southwestern Sichuan, as well as the northern part of the China-Indochina Peninsula that once belonged to the Central Plains dynasty. The Han, Jin, Southern, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties governed the southwestern frontier to varying degrees. The regimes of Nanyue, Shuhan, Nanzhao, and Dali also established their unique rules there. Its vicissitudes over more than 2,000 years have outlined the epic evolution for this region, and left many eluding historical mysteries"--
Review and outlook -- Frontier governance theories and practices of the Central Plains Dynasty -- The strategies of the Central Plains Dynasty for managing the southwestern frontier -- The administration of the southwestern frontier by the Central Plains Dynasty -- Give geopolitics of the borderland and administration of the Central Plains Dynasty -- Frontier strategies of frontier regimes and their frontier governance.