Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours /

Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours / / ed. by Victor H. Mair, Liam Kelley.

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"At a time when China-Southeast Asia relationships are undergoing profound changes, it is pleasing to have a volume which examines the interactions between China and the polities and societies to the south through time. With multiple aims of exploring the relations between northern Chinese cult...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Abalahin, Andrew J.,
Beaud, Sylvie,
Brindley, Erica F.,
Chittick, Andrew,
Clark, Hugh R.,
Fu, Rebecca Shuang,
Gungwu, Wang,
Heng, Derek,
Kelley, Liam C.,
Kim, Nam C.,
Li, Yi,
Mair, Victor H.,
Marsh, Sean,
Tana, Li,
Wan, Xiang,
Xinjiang, Rong,
HerausgeberIn:
Kelley, Liam,
Mair, Victor H.,
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • The CONTRIBUTORS
  • 1. Introduction: Imperial China Looking South
  • 2. Layers of Meaning: Hairstyle and Yue Identity in Ancient Chinese Texts
  • 3. Sinicization and Barbarization: Ancient State Formation at the Southern Edge of Sinitic Civilization
  • 4. Clothes Make the Man: Body Culture and Ethnic Boundaries on the Lingnan Frontier in the Southern Song
  • 5. What Makes a Chinese God? Or, What Makes a God Chinese?
  • 6. Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of China's Southern Borderlands
  • 7. Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam
  • 8. Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island
  • 9. Southeast Asian Primary Products and Their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries
  • 10. New Evidence on the History of Sino-Arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate
  • 11. The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China
  • 12. Transformation of the Yunnanese Community along the Sino-Burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • 13. How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century
  • 14. Realms within Realms of Radiance, Or, Can Heaven Have Two Sons? Imperial China as Primus Inter Pares among Sino-Pacific Mandala Polities
  • Index

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