This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history.

Autorentext
Don J. Wyatt is professor and chair of the Department of History at Middlebury College.

Inhalt
Introduction - Don J. Wyatt * Fathoming Consort Xian: Negotiated Power in the Liang, Chen, and Sui Dynasties - Sherry J. Mou * Frontier Defense and Provincial Autonomy 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 âJust Warâ Doctrine - Don J. Wyatt * Hidden Time, Hidden Space: Crossing Borders with Occult Ritual in the Song Military - M. A. Butler * Frustrated Empires: The Song â' Tangut Xia War of 1037â'1044 - Michael C. McGrath * âTreacherous Factionsâ: 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