Imperial China and its southern neighbours

Table of Contents: “…-- 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…”

Remote sensing imagery

Table of Contents: “…The irradiance; 3.1.4. The radiance; 3.1.5. Temperature and emissivity; 3.1.6. …”