Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions
  • Chronology of dynasties and kingdoms
  • Introduction: Borderlands engagement in Imperial China
  • The Southwest Silk Road and the Dong world
  • The Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms as multiethnic states
  • The Đại Việt Kingdom's engagement with the Dong world
  • Borderlands engagement in the Song period
  • The Dong world in the face of Mongol expansion
  • Conclusion: The Dong world through today
  • Appendix 1: Reconstructed routes
  • Appendix 2: Locating the Dong world
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index