China's Encounters on the South and Southwest : Reforging the Fiery Frontier over Two Millennia.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures, Maps and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: "The Fiery Frontier and the Dong World" -- James A. Anderson and John K. WhitmoreAnderson and Whitmore -- part 1 -- 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 C. Kelley -- Man and Mongols: the Dali and Đại Việt Kingdoms in the Face of the Northern Invasions -- James A. Anderson -- Yunnan's Muslim Heritage -- Michael C. Brose -- Gunsmoke: The Ming Invasion of Đại Việt and the Role of Firearms in Forging the Southern Frontier -- Kenneth M. Swope -- A State Agent at Odds with the State: Lin Xiyuan and the Ming Recovery of the Four Dong -- Kathlene Baldanza -- part 2 -- 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 Đại Việt: China Policy in the Age of Lê Thánh Tông (r. 1460-1497) -- John K. Whitmore -- Projecting Legitimacy in Ming Native Domains -- Joseph Dennis -- Royal Refuge and Heterodoxy: The Vietnamese Mạc Clan in Great Qing's Southern Frontier, 1677-1730 -- Alexander Ong -- 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 C. 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 -- Glossary -- Index.

China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia describes the southern periphery of China and the many local and state agents acting first to shift and then to shape this territory over two thousand years, mainly by land but now by sea.

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