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Battlefronts Real and Imagined - War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Don J. Wyatt is professor and chair of the Department of History at Middlebury College. Klappentext This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history. Zusammenfassung This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Don J. Wyatt * Fathoming Consort Xian: Negotiated Power in the Liang, Chen, and Sui Dynasties - Sherry J. Mou * Frontier Defense and Provincial Autonomy 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 â€' Tangut Xia War of 1037â€'1044 - 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

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Introduction - Don J. Wyatt * Fathoming Consort Xian: Negotiated Power in the Liang, Chen, and Sui Dynasties - Sherry J. Mou * Frontier Defense and Provincial Autonomy 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 âEURoeJust WarâEUR Doctrine - Don J. Wyatt * Hidden Time, Hidden Space: Crossing Borders with Occult Ritual in the Song Military - M. A. Butler * Frustrated Empires: The Song âEUR' Tangut Xia War of 1037âEUR'1044 - Michael C. McGrath * âEURoeTreacherous FactionsâEUR: 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

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Authors Don J. Wyatt
Assisted by Wyatt (Editor), D Wyatt (Editor), D. Wyatt (Editor), Don J. Wyatt (Editor)
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 02.07.2008
 
EAN 9781403960849
ISBN 978-1-4039-6084-9
No. of pages 321
Series The New Middle Ages
The New Middle Ages
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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