Handbuch der Orientalistik. Abt. 3, Südostasien = South-East Asia. Bd. 22, China's encounters on the South and Southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia

China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia describes the southern periphery of China and the many local and state agents acting first to shift and then to shape this territory over two thousand years, mainly by land but now by sea. Contents Preface List of Figures, Maps and Tables List of Contributors Introduction: “The Fiery Frontier and the Dong World” James A. Anderson and John K. WhitmoreAnderson and Whitmore part 1 Shifting the Southern Frontier ∵ Where to Draw the Line?The Chinese Southern Frontier in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries Catherine Churchman Constructing Local Narratives: Spirits, Dreams, and Prophecies in the Medieval Red River Delta Liam C. Kelley Man and Mongols: the Dali and Đại Việt Kingdoms in the Face of the Northern Invasions James A. Anderson Yunnan’s Muslim Heritage Michael C. Brose Gunsmoke: The Ming Invasion of Đại Việt and the Role of Firearms in Forging the Southern Frontier Kenneth M. Swope A State Agent at Odds with the State: Lin Xiyuan and the Ming Recovery of the Four Dong Kathlene Baldanza part 2 Shaping the Southern Frontier ∵ Imperial Ideal Compromised: Northern and Southern Courts Across the New Frontier in the Early Yuan Era Sun Laichen Northern Relations for Đại Việt: China Policy in the Age of Lê Thánh Tông (r. 1460–1497) John K. Whitmore Projecting Legitimacy in Ming Native Domains Joseph Dennis Royal Refuge and Heterodoxy: The Vietnamese Mạc Clan in Great Qing’s Southern Frontier, 1677–1730 Alexander Ong The Rule of Ritual: Crimes and Justice in Qing-Vietnamese Relations During The Qianlong Period (1736–1796) Jaymin Kim Volatile Allies: Two Cases of Powerbrokers in the Nineteenth Century Vietnamese-Chinese Borderlands Bradley C. Davis Depicting Life in the Twentieth-Century Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Local Histories and Modernities in the Career and Photography of Zhuang Xueben (1909–1984) Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa From Land to Water: Fixing Fluid Frontiers and the Politics of Lines in the South China / Eastern Sea Kenneth MacLean Asymmetric Structure and Culture in China’s Relations with its Southern Neighbors Brantly Womack Glossary Index China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia discusses the mountainous territory between lowland China and Southeast Asia, what we term the Dong world, and varied encounters by China with this world's many elements. The essays describe such encounters over the past two millennia and note various asymmetric relations that have resulted therefrom. Local populations, indigenous chiefs, state officials, and rulers have all acted to shape this frontier, especially after the Mongol incursions of the thirteenth century drastically shifted it. This process has moved from the alliances of the Dong world to the indirect rule of the Tusi (native official) age to the Qing and recent Gaitu Guiliu efforts at direct rule by the state, placing regular officials in charge there. The essays detail the complexities of this frontier through time, space, and personality, particularly in those instances, as today on land and sea, when China elects to pursue an aggressive policy in this direction.Contributors include: Brantly Womack, Kenneth MacLean, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Bradley Davis, Jaymin Kim, Alexander Ong, Joseph Dennis, Sun Laichen, John K. Whitmore, Kathlene Baldanza, Kenneth M. Swope, Michael Brose, James A. Anderson, Liam Kelley, and Catherine Churchman. China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia discusses the mountainous territory between lowland China and Southeast Asia, what we term the Dong world, and varied encounters by China with this world's many elements. The essays describe such encounters over the past two millennia and note various asymmetric relations that have resulted therefrom. Local populations, indigenous chiefs, state officials, and rulers have all acted to shape this frontier, especially after the Mongol incursions of the thirteenth century drastically shifted it. This process has moved from the alliances of the Dong world to the indirect rule of the Tusi (native official) age to the Qing and recent Gaitu Guiliu efforts at direct rule by the state, placing regular officials in charge there. The essays detail the complexities of this frontier through time, space, and personality, particularly in those instances, as today on land and sea, when China elects to pursue an aggressive policy in this direction. Contributors include: Brantly Womack, Kenneth MacLean, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Bradley Davis, Jaymin Kim, Alexander Ong, Joseph Dennis, Sun Laichen, John K. Whitmore, Kathlene Baldanza, Kenneth M. Swope, Michael Brose, James A. Anderson, Liam Kelley, and Catherine Churchman China's Encounters on the South and Southwest: Reforging the Fiery Frontier over Two Millennia discusses the mountainous territory between lowland China and Southeast Asia, what we term the Dong world, and varied encounters by China with this world's many elements. The essays describe such encounters over the past two milennia and note various asymmetric relations that have resulted therefrom. Local populations, indigenous chiefs, state officials, and rulers have all acted to shape this frontier, especially after the Mongol incursions of the thirteenth century drastically shifted it. This process has moved from the alliances of the Dong world to the indirect rule of the Tusi (native official) age to the Qing and recent Gaitu Guiliu efforts at direct rule by the state, placing regular officials in charge there. The essays detail the complexities of this frontier through time, space, and personality, particularly in those instances, as today on land and sea, when China elects to pursue an aggressive policy in this direction. -- from back cover "The northern Mon-Khmer language Wa is a group of dialects spoken by about a million people on the China-Burma border. The Dictionary of Wa documents the lexicon of a digitised corpus comprising the majority of extant printed resources in the two closely related de facto standard Wa dialects. Approximately 12,000 headwords and compounds are translated and explained in Burmese, Chinese and English, with some 7,000 example sentences, similarly translated. The dictionary is alphabetised in the Wa orthography officially adopted by the authorities in the Wa Special Region in Burma, a revised and improved version of the spelling first devised for translations of the Bible in the 1930s; headwords are given also in the spelling devised for Wa publications in China"-- Provided by publisher __China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia__