| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF (xvi, 391 pages)) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Preface -- 1. Introduction : Imperial China looking south / Wang Gungwu -- 2. Layers of meaning : hairstyle and Yue identity in ancient Chinese texts / Erica F. Brindley -- 3. Sinicization and barbarization : ancient state formation at the southern edge of Sinitic civilization / Nam C. Kim -- 4. Clothes make the man : body culture and ethnic boundaries on the Lingnan frontier in the Southern song / Sean Marsh -- 5. What makes a Chinese god? Or, what makes a god Chinese? / Hugh R. Clark -- 6. Dragon boats and serpent prows : naval warfare and the political culture of China's southern borderlands / Andrew Chittick -- 7. Inventing traditions in fifteenth-century Vietnam / Liam C. Kelley -- 8. Epidemics, trade, and local worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island / Li Tana -- 9. Southeast Asian primary products and their impact on Chinese material culture in the tenth to seventeenth centuries / Derek Heng -- 10. New evidence on the history of Sino-Arabic relations : a study of Yang Liangyao's embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate / Rong Xinjiang -- 11. The peacock's gallbladder : an example of Tibetan influence in late Imperial China / Rebecca Shuang Fu and Xiang Wan -- 12. Transformation of the Yunnanese community along the Sino-Burma Border during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Yi Li -- 13. How the north tried to pacify the south through ritual practices : on the origins of the Guan Suo opera in the nineteenth century / Sylvie Beaud -- 14. Realms within realms of radiance, or, can heaven have two sons? Imperial China as primus inter pares among Sino-Pacific Mandala polities / Andrew J. Abalahin |
| Summary |
""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 cultures and those of the south, examining the cultural plurality of areas which are today parts of Southern China, and illuminating the relations between Sinitic and non-Sinitic societies, the volume is broad in concept and content. Within these extensive rubrics, this edited collection further interrogate |
| Notes |
"This volume is composed of papers presented at the international conference on "Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours", organized by the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, and held at ISEAS on 28-29 June 2012"--Page vii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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Political culture -- China -- History
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HISTORY / Asia / China.
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Civilization
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International economic integration
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International relations
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Political culture
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Middle East -- Relations -- China
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China -- Relations -- Middle East
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Southeast Asia -- Economic integration
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Southeast Asia -- Relations -- China
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China -- Relations -- Southeast Asia
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China -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023992
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China
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Middle East
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Southeast Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kelley, Liam C., editor.
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Mair, Victor H., 1943- editor.
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International Conference on Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours (2012 : Singapore) author
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| ISBN |
9789814620543 |
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9814620548 |
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981462053X |
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9789814620536 |
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