Imperial China and its southern neighbours. [electronic resource] / Mair, Victor H.

Imperial China and its southern neighbours -- Contents -- Preface -- The Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Imperial China Looking South -- 2. Layers of Meaning: Hairstyle and Yue Identity in Ancient Chinese Texts -- 3. Sinicization and Barbarization: Ancient State Formation at the Southern Edge of Sinitic Civilization -- 4. Clothes Make the Man: Body Culture and Ethnic Boundaries on the Lingnan Frontier in the Southern Song -- 5. What Makes a Chinese God? or, What Makes a God Chinese? -- 6. Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of China's Southern Borderlands -- 7. Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam -- 8. Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island -- 9. Southeast Asian Primary Products and Their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries -- 10. New Evidence on the History of Sino-Arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate -- 11. The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China -- 12. Transformation of the Yunnanese Community along the Sino-Burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 13. How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century -- 14. Realms within Realms of Radiance, Or, Can Heaven Have Two Sons?: Imperial China as Primus Inter Pares among Sino-Pacific Mandala Polities -- Index.