Unbounded Loyalty: Frontier Crossing in Liao China

by Naomi Standen

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0824829832

ISBN13:9780824829834

Release Date:December 2006

Publisher:University of Hawaii Press

Length:298 Pages

Weight:1.32 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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