Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps, Figures, Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Borders, Boundaries, and Frontier Crossers: Concepts and Background
7. CHAPTER 1. You Can’t Get There from Here: Rethinking Categories 15
8. CHAPTER 2. Fed or Dead: Notions and Uses of Loyalty (zhong) 41
9. CHAPTER 3. Crossing Boundaries and Shifting Borders: The First-generation Liao Southerners 64
10. Part II: Working for the Liao: Life Stories
11. CHAPTER 4 . Loyalties in the Borderlands: The Founder and the Confucian 107
12. CHAPTER 5. An Emerging Boundary: Two Approaches to Serving the Liao 124
13. CHAPTER 6. Drawing the Line: Redefinitions of Loyalty 149
14. CONCLUSION Locating Borders Then, Now, and In Between 172
15. Appendix 187
16. Abbreviations 211
17. Notes 213
18. Glossary 241
19. Bibliography 251
20. Index 271
21. About the Author 281