China's encounters on the south and southwest : : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia / / edited by James A. Anderson, John K. Whitmore.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 3, Southeast Asia ; volume 22
• VerfasserIn: Anderson, James, 1963-; Whitmore, John K.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Anderson, James, 1963-; Whitmore, John K.,; Brill Academic Publishers
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Südostasien ; 22. Bd.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 419 pages) :; maps, tables.
• Notes: Includes index.

China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia discusses the mountainous territory between lowland China and Southeast Asia, what we term the Dong world, and varied encounters by China with this world's many elements. The essays describe such encounters over the past two millennia and note various asymmetric relations that have resulted therefrom. Local populations, indigenous chiefs, state officials, and rulers have all acted to shape this frontier, especially after the Mongol incursions of the thirteenth century drastically shifted it. This process has moved from the alliances of the Dong world to the indirect rule of the Tusi (native official) age to the Qing and recent Gaitu Guiliu efforts at direct rule by the state, placing regular officials in charge there. The essays detail the complexities of this frontier through time, space, and personality, particularly in those instances, as today on land and sea, when China elects to pursue an aggressive policy in this direction. Contributors include: Brantly Womack, Kenneth MacLean, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Bradley Davis, Jaymin Kim, Alexander Ong, Joseph Dennis, Sun Laichen, John K. Whitmore, Kathlene Baldanza, Kenneth M. Swope, Michael Brose, James A. Anderson, Liam Kelley, and Catherine Churchman.

Table of Contents

Part I. 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 Kelley -- Man and Mongols: the Dali and Dai Viet kingdoms in the face of the northern invasions / James Anderson -- Yunnan's Muslim heritage / Michael Brose -- Gunsmoke: the Ming invasion of Dai Viet and the role of firearms in forging the southern frontier / Kenneth Swope -- A state agent at odds with the state: Lin Xiyuan and the Ming recovery of the Four Dong / Kathlene Baldanza -- Part II. 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 dai viet: china policy in the age of Le Thanh Tong (r. 1460-1497) / John Whitmore -- Projecting legitimacy in Ming native domains / Joseph Dennis -- Royal refuge and heterodoxy: the Vietnamese Mac Clan in Great Qing's southern frontier, 1677-1730 / Alexander On -- 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 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.