Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours

Editors:
Victor H Mair, Liam Kelley

Publication Year:
2015

Publisher:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Table of Contents:

Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours, by Victor H Mair, Liam Kelley

1. Introduction: Imperial China Looking South, by Wang Gungwu

2. Layers of Meaning: Hairstyle and Yue Identity in Ancient Chinese Texts, by Erica F. Brindley

3. Sinicization and Barbarization: Ancient State Formation at the Southern Edge of Sinitic Civilization, by Nam C. Kim

4. Clothes Make the Man: Body Culture and Ethnic Boundaries on the Lingnan Frontier in the Southern Song, by Sean Marsh

5. What Makes a Chinese God? Or, What Makes a God Chinese?, by Hugh R. Clark

6. Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of Chinas Southern Borderlands, by Andrew Chittick

7. Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam, by Liam Kelley

8. Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island, by Li Tana

9. Southeast Asian Primary Products and Their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries, by Derek Heng

10. New Evidence on the History of Sino-Arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate, by Rong Xinjiang

11. The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China,  by Rebecca Shuang Fu, Xiang Wan

12. Transformation of the Yunnanese Community along the Sino-Burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, by Yi Li

13. How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century, by Sylvie Beaud

14. Realms within Realms of Radiance, Or, Can Heaven Have Two Sons? Imperial China as Primus Inter Pares among Sino-Pacific Mandala Polities, by Andrew J. Abalahin