Unbounded Loyalty : : Frontier Crossings in Liao China /

Unbounded Loyalty : : Frontier Crossings in Liao China / / Naomi Standen.

Unbounded Loyalty investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. The perspective is that of the people in the borderlands who shifted their allegiance from the post-Tang regimes in North China to the new Liao empire (907-1125). Naomi Standen offers new ways of thinkin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Standen, Naomi,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 11 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps, Figures, Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Borders, Boundaries, and Frontier Crossers: Concepts and Background
  • CHAPTER 1. You Can't Get There from Here: Rethinking Categories
  • CHAPTER 2. Fed or Dead: Notions and Uses of Loyalty (zhong)
  • CHAPTER 3. Crossing Boundaries and Shifting Borders: The First-generation Liao Southerners
  • Part II: Working for the Liao: Life Stories
  • CHAPTER 4 . Loyalties in the Borderlands: The Founder and the Confucian
  • CHAPTER 5. An Emerging Boundary: Two Approaches to Serving the Liao
  • CHAPTER 6. Drawing the Line: Redefinitions of Loyalty
  • CONCLUSION Locating Borders Then, Now, and In Between
  • Appendix
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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