| #3945212 in Books | University of Hawaii Press | 2006-12-31 | 2006-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.81 x6.14l,1.32 | File type: PDF | 298 pages | |||Standen has produced an impressive study, based on a keen reading and analysis of primary sources, that addresses important ideas and concepts--mainly about borders and loyalty during the Tang-Song transition--which in the past have not received the attention
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 cohere...
You easily download any file type for your device.Unbounded Loyalty: Frontier Crossings in Liao China | Naomi Standen. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
