Table of Contents

Introduction - Don J. Wyatt * Fathoming Consort Xian: Negotiated Power in the Liang, Chen, and Sui Dynasties - Sherry J. Mou * Frontier Defense and Provincial Autonomy in Late Tang: The Case of the Lulong Army - David A. Graff * The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao Border - Peter Lorge * In Pursuit of the Great Peace: Wang Dan and the Early Song Evasion of the “Just War” Doctrine - Don J. Wyatt * Hidden Time, Hidden Space: Crossing Borders with Occult Ritual in the Song Military - M. A. Butler * Frustrated Empires: The Song â€' Tangut Xia War of 1037â€'1044 - Michael C. McGrath * “Treacherous Factions”: Shifting Frontier Alliances in the Breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese Relations on the Eve of the 1075 Border War - James A. Anderson * From Battlefields to Counties: War, Border, and State Power in Southern Song Huainan - Ruth Mostern * People in the Middle: Uyghurs in the Northwest Frontier Zone - Michael C. Brose

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Don J. Wyatt is professor and chair of the Department of History at Middlebury College.