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Unbounded loyalty :

(Number (ISBN

0824865359

(Number (ISBN

1435665937

(Number (ISBN

9780824865351

(Number (ISBN

9781435665934

Erroneous ISBN

0824829832

Erroneous ISBN

9780824829834

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b772299

Title Proper

Unbounded loyalty :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

frontier crossings in Liao China /

First Statement of Responsibility

Naomi Standen.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Honolulu :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Hawaii Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-270) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Part I. Borders, boundaries, and frontier crossers: concepts and background -- You can't get there from here : rethinking categories -- Fed or dead: notions and uses of loyalty (zhong) -- Crossing boundaries and shifting borders: the first-generation Liao southerners -- Part II. Working for the Liao: life stories -- Loyalties in the borderlands: the founder and the Confucian -- An emerging boundary: two approaches to serving the Liao -- Drawing the line: redefinitions of loyalty -- Conclusion: locating borders: then, now, and in between -- Appendix: frontier crossings.

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Unbounded Loyalty investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. The perspective is that of the people in the borderlands who shifted their allegiance from the post-Tang regimes in North China to the new Liao empire (907-1125). Naomi Standen offers new ways of thinking about borders, loyalty, and identity in premodern China. She takes as her starting point the recognition that, at the time, "China" did not exist as a coherent entity, neither politically nor geographically, neither ethnically nor ideologically. Political borders were not the fixed geographical divisions of the modern world, but a function of relationships between leaders and followers. When local leaders changed allegiance, the borderline moved with them. Cultural identity did not determine people's actions: Ethnicity did not exist. In this context, she argues, collaboration, resistance, and accommodation were not meaningful concepts, and tenth-century understandings of loyalty were broad and various.Unbounded Loyalty sheds fresh light on the Tang-Song transition by focusing on the much-neglected tenth century and by treating the Liao as the preeminent Tang successor state. It fills several important gaps in scholarship on premodern China as well as uncovering new questions regarding the early modern period. It will be regarded as critically important to all scholars of the Tang, Liao, Five Dynasties, and Song periods and will be read widely by those working on Chinese history from the Han to the Qing.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt65rm21

Title

Unbounded loyalty.

International Standard Book Number

9780824829834

Parallel Title

Frontier crossing in Liao China

Ethnicity.

Boundaries.

Ethnicity.

Grenze

HISTORY-- Historical Geography.

Liao Dynasty (China)

Liaodynastie

China, Boundaries, History.

China, History, Liao dynasty, 947-1125.

China, Nord

China.

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HIS-- 052000

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Book number

Standen, Naomi,1965-

Date of Transaction

20201206180515.0

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pn

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[Book]

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