Imperial China and its southern neighbours

"At a time when China-Southeast Asia relationships are undergoing profound changes, it is pleasing to have a volume which examines the interactions between China and the polities and societies to the south through time. With multiple aims of exploring the relations between northern Chinese cult...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on Imperial China and its Southern Neighbours ISEAS
Other Authors: Kelley, Liam C. (Editor), Mair, Victor H., d 1943- e editor
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Imperial China Looking South
  • Layers of Meaning: Hairstyle and Yue Identity in Ancient Chinese Texts
  • Sinicization and Barbarization: Ancient State Formation at the Southern Edge of Sinitic Civilization
  • Clothes Make the Man: Body Culture and Ethnic Boundaries on the Lingnan Frontier in the Southern Song
  • What Makes a Chinese God? Or, What Makes a God Chinese?
  • Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of Chinas Southern Borderlands
  • Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam
  • Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island
  • Southeast Asian Primary Products and Their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries
  • New Evidence on the History of Sino-Arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate
  • The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China
  • Transformation of the Yunnanese Community along the Sino-Burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century
  • Realms within Realms of Radiance, Or, Can Heaven Have Two Sons? Imperial China as Primus Inter Pares among Sino-Pacific Mandala Polities