Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- The Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Imperial China Looking South
- 2 Layers of Meaning: Hairstyle and Yue Identity in Ancient Chinese Texts
- 3 Sinicization and Barbarization: Ancient State Formation at the Southern Edge of Sinitic Civilization
- 4 Clothes Make the Man: Body Culture and Ethnic Boundaries on the Lingnan Frontier in the Southern Song
- 5 What Makes a Chinese God? or, What Makes a God Chinese?
- 6 Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of China's Southern Borderlands
- 7 Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-century Vietnam
- 8 Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island
- 9 Southeast Asian Primary Products and their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries
- 10 New Evidence on the History of Sino'arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate
- 11 The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China
- 12 Transformation of the Yunnanese Community Along the Sino–burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 13 How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century
- 14 Realms Within Realms of Radiance, or, can Heaven Have Two Sons? Imperial China as Primus Inter Pares among Sino–pacific Mandala Polities
- Index
- Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series
10 - New Evidence on the History of Sino'arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2018
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- The Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Imperial China Looking South
- 2 Layers of Meaning: Hairstyle and Yue Identity in Ancient Chinese Texts
- 3 Sinicization and Barbarization: Ancient State Formation at the Southern Edge of Sinitic Civilization
- 4 Clothes Make the Man: Body Culture and Ethnic Boundaries on the Lingnan Frontier in the Southern Song
- 5 What Makes a Chinese God? or, What Makes a God Chinese?
- 6 Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of China's Southern Borderlands
- 7 Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-century Vietnam
- 8 Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island
- 9 Southeast Asian Primary Products and their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries
- 10 New Evidence on the History of Sino'arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate
- 11 The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China
- 12 Transformation of the Yunnanese Community Along the Sino–burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 13 How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century
- 14 Realms Within Realms of Radiance, or, can Heaven Have Two Sons? Imperial China as Primus Inter Pares among Sino–pacific Mandala Polities
- Index
- Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series
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- Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours , pp. 239 - 267Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2015