Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Borders Problem 1
5. 1. Chinese Architecture before China 28
6. 2. Han 44
7. 3. Architecture before Reunification 58
8. 4. Seeing the Sixth Century as the Seventh and Eighth 88
9. 5. Tang Internationalism 106
10. 6. Defining Chinese Architecture and Borders during Liao 154
11. 7. Western Xia, Song, Japan, Jin 179
12. 8. A Revisionist History of Yuan Architecture 195
13. 9. Ming 244
14. 10. The Long Eighteenth Century 274
15. Afterword 306
16. Notes 311
17. Bibliography 351
18. Illustration Credits 415
19. Index 419