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Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours
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Table of contents
- 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