Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. A note to the reader xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One
8. 1. Hidden Texts: The Modern Construction 17
9. 2. The Yin and the Yang of Power 33
10. 3. Recovering the Daoist Text 65
11. Part Two
12. 4. Royalizing the Realm and the Ritualization of Violence 111
13. 5. Peripheries of Power: Toward an Ambulatory History 143
14. Part Three
15. 6. China in the Medieval Imaginary 177
16. 7. Reimagining Late Heian and Early Medieval Space 217
17. 8. The Apocryphal History of Kiyomori 272
18. Epilogue 319
19. Notes 325
20. Bibliography 403
21. Glossary of Chinese characters 435
22. Index 439