| Contents |
Introduction / Don J. Wyatt -- Fathoming Consort Xian: negotiated power in the Liang, Chen, and Sui dynasties / Sherry J. Mou -- Provincial autonomy and frontier defense and in late Tang: the case of the Lulong Army / David A. Graff -- The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao border / Peter Lorge -- In pursuit of the great peace: Wang Dan and the early Song evasion of the "just war" doctrine / Don J. Wyatt -- Hidden time, hidden space: crossing borders with occult ritual in the Song military / M. A. Butler -- Frustrated empires: the Song-Tangut Xia war of 1038-44 / Michael C. McGrath -- "Treacherous factions:" shifting frontier alliances in the breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese relations on the eve of the 1075 border war / James A. Anderson -- From battlefields to counties: war, border, and state power in Southern Song Huainan / Ruth Mostern -- People in the middle: Uyghurs in the northwest frontier zone / Michael C. Brose. |
