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

by D. Wyatt (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349526314
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/02/2008
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	307
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Don J. Wyatt is professor and chair of the Department of History at Middlebury College.

Table of Contents

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 "' Tangut Xia War of 1037"'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