Battlefronts Real and Imagined

1. Introduction
Don J. Wyatt

2. Fathoming Consort Xian: Negotiated Power in the Liang, Chen, and Sui Dynasties
Sherry J. Mou

3. Provincial Autonomy and Frontier Defense in Late Tang: The Case of the Lulong Army
David A. Graff

4. The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao Border
Peter Lorge

5. In Pursuit of the Great Peace: Wang Dan and the Early Song Evasion of the “Just War” Doctrine
Don J. Wyatt

6. Hidden Time, Hidden Space: Crossing Borders with Occult Ritual in the Song Military
M. A. Butler

7. Frustrated Empires: The Song-Tangut Xia War of 1038–44
Michael C. McGrath

8. Treacherous Factions”: Shifting Frontier Alliances in the Breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese Relations on the Eve of the 1075 Border War
James A. Anderson

9. From Battlefields to Counties: War, Border, and State Power in Southern Song Huainan
Ruth Mostern

10. People in the Middle: Uyghurs in the Northwest Frontier Zone
Michael C. Brose

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