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"Details the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has for centuries inhabited areas along the China-Russia borderland. Traces the evolution of Qing policies toward the Orochen and examines how the impact of political organization in one era endures in the group's social and cultural values"--Provided by publisher

In 1882 the Qing dynasty government established the Xing'an garrison in Heilongjiang to counteract the impact of Russian exploration and territorial expansion into the region. The Xing'an garrison was only operative for twelve years before closing down. What may seem to be an unmitigated failure of military and civil administrative planning was in fact a decisive attempt to contend with the challenges of governing borderland people rather than merely shoring up physical territorial limits. The Xing'an garrison arose out of the need to "draw in" the Yafahan Orochen population, one that had developed close relations with Russians through trade and social interaction. This article demonstrates that while building a garrison did not achieve the intended goal of strengthening control over the Yafahan Orochen, it was one of several measures the Qing employed to shape the human frontier in this critical borderland.

Russian Orthodox Christianity is the cornerstone of a diverse cultural community in modern Hong Kong. This book explores the contributions that this group has made to the social landscape of Hong Kong from the British colonial period to the current era of integration into China.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Background: Theory, Material Culture & Literature -- Chapter 2. Towards a Framework for Understanding Traditional Chinese Archery Culture, Ma Lianzhen -- Chapter 3. Archery Books in China, Ma Mingda -- Chapter 4. The Bows of China, Stephen Selby -- Rituals and Transmission: Archery in Ancient China -- Chapter 5. A Socio-Political Study of the Chinese Archery Rituals of the Zhou Period, Stephen Selby -- Chapter 6. Archery Masters in Ancient China, Ma Mingda -- Diplomacy & Exchange: China's Foreign Relations Through the Lens of Archery -- Chapter 7. Banquet Archery at Yujinyuan Garden in the Song Dynasty, Ma Mingda -- Chapter 8. Chinese Archery's Historic Influence on Japan, Ma Mingda -- Archery in Manchu China: Diversity and Unity -- Chapter 9 -- Manchu Archery, Peter Dekker -- Chapter 10. Imperial Hunt in the Qing Dynasty, Geng Zhichu -- Chapter 11 -- The Institution and Administration of Imperial Bowyers and Fletchers during the Qing Dynasty, Geng Zhichu -- Chapter 12 -- Manchu Arrowheads, Kay Koppedrayer -- Chapter 13. Solon Archery Tradition: Forgotten Martial Arts of an Elite Qing Force, Hing Chao in collaboration with Peter Dekker -- Contemporary Revival & Development of Traditional Asian Archery -- Chapter 14. Archery Rites: Remaking Confucian Rites, Sarah Kenderdine et el -- Chapter 15. Korean Archery: Modern Transition and Development, Kim Ki-hoon -- Chapter 16. Three Fundamental Conditions for the Revival of Traditional Chinese Archery.

Part 1 : Sword Culture from Socio-historic Perspectives -- Chapter 1 - Stratification in Italian Martial Culture (Roberto Gotti & Enrico Valseriati) -- Chapter 2 - Development of the Yanlingdao from the Yuan to Qing dynasty (Gong Jian) -- Chapter 3 - Daniel Jaquet, The Rise of the Two-Handed Sword in the Age of Staff-Weapons -- Chapter 4 - Ma Lianzhen, The Origin of the Two-Handed Sword in China -- Part 2: Fight Books: the Transmission and Interpretation of Knowledge -- Chapter 5 - Omar Ma, Ming Dynasty Chinese Fencing Treatises -- Chapter 6 - Miriam Vogelaar, Fabris's 1606 Fencing Manual: an Analytical Bibliographical Study -- Chapter 7 - Manuel Valle Ortiz, The Ferrara Manuscript: Destreza and Vulgar -- Part 3: Material Culture: Weapons, Technology, & Aesthetics -- Chapter 8 - Hu Xiaojun, Rediscovering Swordmaking Techniques of Ancient China: Insights from Reconstructing a Han-Dynasty Ring-Pommel Dao -- Chapter 9 - Gabriele Tonelli, Historical Sword-making Techniques in Northern Italy in the XVI and XVII Centuries -- part 4 : Classical Martial Art Traditions -- Chapter 10 - Ma Lianzhen, Duanbing and the History of Fencing in China -- Chapter 11 - Jacopo Penso, Interpreting Achille Marozzo's System of Sword-fighting: A Contemporary Case Study -- Chapter 12 - Axel Pettersson, Applying Pedagogic Methods in Historic European Martial Arts. .

This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemporary master swordsmiths and masters-of-arms in historical martial arts. Assembling researchers from these diverse fields, this book offers a multi-perspectival and dynamic view of martial culture across time and space. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary significance of this book cannot be overemphasized. Whereas a number of contributors are internationally recognized and, indeed, leading authorities in their respective fields; for example, Jeffrey Shaw has been a world-leading new media artist and scholar since the 1970s, while Ma Mingda is a well-known historian and the contemporary founder of Chinese martial studies; and while there are significant overlaps in their research interests, this book brings their research within a single volume for the first time. Equally significant, the book is structured in such a way to reflect the various core aspects of martial studies, particularly in relation to the study of historic sword culture, including history, culture, philosophy, literature and knowledge transmission, material culture, as well as the technical aspects of historical fencing. As one of the first titles on martial studies, this book becomes a reference not only for scholars taking an interest in this subject, but also for historians; scholars with interest in Chinese and/or Italian history (particularly of the Medieval or early modern periods), the history of international relations in Asia / Far East; anthropologists; scholars of martial (arts) studies and researchers in sword-making and/or historic metallurgy.

How we define border studies is transforming from focussing on "a line in the sand" to the more complex notions of how constituting a border is practiced, sustained and modified. In the expansion of borders studies, the areas explored across Europe and Asia have been numerous, but the specific themes that arise through comparative case studies are novel when approach Europe and Asian borderlands. Comparing the border experiences in East Asia and Europe in a number of thematic clusters ranging from economics, tourism, and food production to ethnicity, migration and conquest, Borders in East and West aims to decenter border studies from its current focus on the Americas and Europe