Political frontiers, ethnic boundaries, and human geographies in Chinese history / edited by Nicola di Cosmo and Don J. Wyatt.

"First published in 2003. Transferred to Digital Printing 2010."--T.p. verso of paperback edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a social geography of the Zhouyuan during the western Zhou dynasty: the Jing and Zhong lineages of Fufeng county / Edward L. Shaughnesssy -- Mapping a "spiritual" landscape: representation of terrestrial space in the Shanhaijing / Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann -- Ethnicity and identity: northern nomads as Buddhist art patrons during the period of northern and southern dynasties / Dorothy C. Wong -- Deep eyes and high noses: physiognomy and the depiction of barbarians in Tang China / Marc Samuel Abramson -- Raiding and frontier society in the five dynasties / Naomi Standen -- "Felt yurts neatly arrayed, large tends huddle close": visualizing the frontier in the northern Song dynasty (960-1127) / Irene S. Leung -- The invention of the Northern Song / Don J. Wyatt -- The Mu'ege kingdom: a brief history of a frontier empire in southwest China / John E. Herman -- Traveler's vocation: Xu Xiake and his excursion to the southwestern frontier / Andrea Riemenschnitter -- Changing spaces of empire in eighteenth-century Qing China / Joanna Waley-Cohen -- Kirghiz nomads on the Qing frontier: tribute, trade, or gift exchange? / Nicola De Cosmo -- Envisioning new borders for the old China in late Qing fiction and local drama / Daphne Pi-Wei Lei.

Includes bibliographical references and index.