Battlefronts real and imagined
Subtitle: war, border, and identity in the Chinese middle period
By: edited by Don J. Wyatt.
Contributors: Wyatt, Don J.
Series: New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: China -- History, Military -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D; China -- History, Military -- 960-1644
Other titles: War, border, and identity in the Chinese middle period
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Don J. Wyatt; title: Fathoming Consort Xian: negotiated power in the Liang, Chen, and Sui dynasties / Sherry J. Mou; title: Frontier defense and provincial autonomy in late Tang: the case of the Lulong Army / David A. Graff; title: The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao border / Peter Lorge; title: In pursuit of the great peace: Wang Dan and the early Song evasion of the "just war" doctrine / Don J. Wyatt; title: Hidden time, hidden space: crossing borders with occult ritual in the Song military / M. A. Butler; title: Frustrated empires: the Song-Tangut Xia war of 1037-44 / Michael C. McGrath; title: "Treacherous factions:" shifting frontier alliances in the breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese relations on the eve of the 1075 border war / James A. Anderson; title: From battlefields to counties: war, border, and state power in Southern Song Huainan / Ruth Mostern; title: People in the middle: Uyghurs in the northwest frontier zone / Michael C. Brose.