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Political frontiers, ethnic boundaries and human geographies in Chinese history /

The question of boundaries - physical or political - has become fertile ground in the analysis of Chinese history and society. These essays cover the early decades of the Zhou dynasty to the early centuries after the Manchu conquest.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wyatt, Don J., Di Cosmo, Nicola, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.