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Battlefronts Real and Imagined

War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Don J. Wyatt
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Don J. Wyatt
    Pages 1-9

  3. Fathoming Consort Xian: Negotiated Power in the Liang, Chen, and Sui Dynasties

    • Sherry J. Mou
    Pages 11-41

  4. Provincial Autonomy and Frontier Defense in Late Tang: The Case of the Lulong Army

    • David A. Graff
    Pages 43-58

  5. The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao Border

    • Peter Lorge
    Pages 59-74

  6. In Pursuit of the Great Peace: Wang Dan and the Early Song Evasion of the “Just War” Doctrine

    • Don J. Wyatt
    Pages 75-109

  7. Hidden Time, Hidden Space: Crossing Borders with Occult Ritual in the Song Military

    • M. A. Butler
    Pages 111-149

  8. Frustrated Empires: The Song-Tangut Xia War of 1038–44

    • Michael C. McGrath
    Pages 151-190

  9. Treacherous Factions”: Shifting Frontier Alliances in the Breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese Relations on the Eve of the 1075 Border War

    • James A. Anderson
    Pages 191-226

  10. From Battlefields to Counties: War, Border, and State Power in Southern Song Huainan

    • Ruth Mostern
    Pages 227-252

  11. People in the Middle: Uyghurs in the Northwest Frontier Zone

    • Michael C. Brose
    Pages 253-289

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 291-307
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About this book

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.

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

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