Political frontiers, ethnic boundaries, and human geographies in Chinese history / edited by Nicola di Cosmo and Don J. Wyatt.

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Other Authors: Di Cosmo, Nicola, 1957-, Wyatt, Don J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a social geography of the Zhouyuan during the western Zhou dynasty: the Jing and Zhong lineages of Fufeng county / Edward L. Shaughnesssy
  • Mapping a "spiritual" landscape: representation of terrestrial space in the Shanhaijing / Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann
  • Ethnicity and identity: northern nomads as Buddhist art patrons during the period of northern and southern dynasties / Dorothy C. Wong
  • Deep eyes and high noses: physiognomy and the depiction of barbarians in Tang China / Marc Samuel Abramson
  • Raiding and frontier society in the five dynasties / Naomi Standen
  • "Felt yurts neatly arrayed, large tends huddle close": visualizing the frontier in the northern Song dynasty (960-1127) / Irene S. Leung
  • The invention of the Northern Song / Don J. Wyatt
  • The Mu'ege kingdom: a brief history of a frontier empire in southwest China / John E. Herman
  • Traveler's vocation: Xu Xiake and his excursion to the southwestern frontier / Andrea Riemenschnitter
  • Changing spaces of empire in eighteenth-century Qing China / Joanna Waley-Cohen
  • Kirghiz nomads on the Qing frontier: tribute, trade, or gift exchange? / Nicola De Cosmo
  • Envisioning new borders for the old China in late Qing fiction and local drama / Daphne Pi-Wei Lei.