4 What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border?

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps vii
4. Preface viii
5. Introduction 1
6. The Centre and the Borderlands in Chinese Political Theory 11
7. Ming-Qing Border Defence, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century 29
8. Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the Early Seventeenth Century 57
9. What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border? 74
10. Ming China and Its Border with Annam 91
11. Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing Frontier Campaigns 105
12. Tributary Relations and the Qing-Chosŏn Frontier on Mount Paektu 126
13. The Amur: As River, as Border 151
14. The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: A Sino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland 162
15. A Zone of Nebulous Menace: The Guangxi/Indochina Border in the Republican Period 181
16. Border Banishment: Rightists in the Army Farms of Beidahuang 198
17. L’état, c’est nous, or We Have Met the Oppressor and He Is Us: The Predicament of Minority Cadres in the PRC 221
18. Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on the Periphery in Contemporary China 240
19. Bibliography 271
20. Contributors 291
21. Index 292