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Summary:

"Focusing on the Southwestern Silk Road on China's rugged southern periphery in the 8th-13th centuries, James Anderson explores borderland relations between imperial China and its neighbors, as expressed in trade in tribute articles and the thriving interregional horse market"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Conventions
• Chronology of dynasties and kingdoms
• Introduction: Borderlands engagement in Imperial China
• The Southwest Silk Road and the Dong world
• The Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms as multiethnic states
• The Đại Việt Kingdom's engagement with the Dong world
• Borderlands engagement in the Song period
• The Dong world in the face of Mongol expansion
• Conclusion: The Dong world through today
• Appendix 1: Reconstructed routes
• Appendix 2: Locating the Dong world
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Author/Creator:

Anderson, James, 1963- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Dong world and imperial China's southwest Silk Road: trade, security, and state formation [by Anderson, J.]

Subjects:

China — Foreign relations — Indochina

Indochina — Foreign relations — China

Silk Road — History

China — History — Song dynasty, 960-1279

China, Southwest — Economic conditions

Indochina — Economic conditions

China, Southwest — Commerce — History

Indochina — Commerce — History

Vietnam — History — 939-1428

Vietnam — Relations — China

China — Relations — Vietnam

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DS740.5.I55 A53 2024

ISBNs:

9780295752785 (electronic bk.)
0295752785 (electronic bk.)
9780295752778 [Invalid]
0295752777 [Invalid]
9780295752792 [Invalid]
0295752793 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1442929450

Other Control Numbers:

3960199 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306502998