"Focusing on the Southwestern Silk Road on China's rugged southern periphery in the 8th-13th centuries, James Anderson explores borderland relations between imperial China and its neighbors, as expressed in trade in tribute articles and the thriving interregional horse market."
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Chronology of Dynasties and Kingdoms -- Introduction: Borderlands Engagement in Imperial China -- One: The Southwest Silk Road and the Dong World -- Two: The Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms as Multiethnic States -- Three: The Ðại Việt Kingdom's Engagement with the Dong World -- Four: Borderlands Engagement in the Song Period -- Five: The Dong World in the Face of Mongol Expansion -- Conclusion: The Dong World through Today -- Appendix 1: Reconstructed Routes -- Appendix 2: Locating the Dong World -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Back Cover.
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Brings a borderlands perspective to the history of China From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China's rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. These ties dramatically affected imperial China's relations with the emerging kingdoms in its borderlands. Local chiefs before the tenth century had considered the control of such contacts an important aspect of their political authority. Rulers and high officials at the Chinese court valued commerce in the region, where rare commodities could be obtained and vassal kingdoms showed less belligerence than did northern ones. Trade routes along this Southwest Silk Road traverse the homelands of numerous non-Han peoples. This book investigates the principalities, chiefdoms, and market nodes that emerged and flourished in the network of routes that passed through what James A. Anderson calls the ""Dong world,"" a collection of Tai-speaking polities in upland valleys. The process of state formation that arose through trade coincided with the differentiation of peoples who were later labeled as distinct ethnicities. Exploration of this formative period at the nexus of the Chinese empire, the Dali kingdom, and the Vietnamese kingdom reveals a nuanced picture of the Chinese province of Yunnan and its southern neighbors preceding Mongol efforts to impose a new administrative order in the region. These communities shared a regional identity and a lively history of interaction well before northern occupiers classified its inhabitants as ""national minorities"" of China
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The Communication Yearbook 13 includes chapters on the following topics: Interaction goals in negotiation, an analysis of ethnographic narrative, the role of the news media in international relations, Japan as an information exporter, group decision making, new models for mass communication research
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In Communication Yearbook 11 major contributions from leading scholars in a variety of communication fields are presented and then critiqued by other authorities (often representing complementary or competing schools of thought). Topics addressed and commented on include the mass media audience, the theory of mediation, effective policy for health care communication and feminist criticism of television
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"The Communication Yearbook annuals" publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association, each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1991
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This reader shows students that shapes are all around us. Movie tickets are rectangles. Pizza pans are circles. Students learn about the four basic shapes-triangles, rectangles, squares, and circles-as they look for them in photographs of places they go around town.
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Questions of democracy, territoriality and globalisation / James Anderson -- Reconstituting the modern state / Bhikhu Parekh -- The limits of federalism in transnational democracy : beyond the hegemony of the US model / John Agnew -- Reconceptualising democracy in the European Union / Michael Newman -- Multi-level citizenship, identity and regions in contemporary Europe / Joe Painter -- Transnational integration and cross-border regions in the European Union / Liam O'Dowd -- Transnational democracy versus national conflict: border crossings in Ireland / James Anderson, Douglas Hamilton -- Democratising global institutions: possibilities, limits and normative foundations / Anthony McGrew -- Holding the middle ground in the transnationalisation process / Kees Van Der Pijl -- The democratic potential of non-governmental organisations / Joachim Hirsch -- Contesting corporate globalism : sources of power, channels for democratisation / James Goodman -- Relocating the demos? / Peter J. Taylor
A multidisciplinary array of experts explore the issues related to globalisation and democracy. They focus on federalism, multi-cultural societies, the European Union and potential agents for the democratisation of global institutions.