Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Centre and the Borderlands in Chinese Political Theory -- 2 Ming-Qing Border Defence, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century -- 3 Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the Early Seventeenth Century -- 4 What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border? -- 5 Ming China and Its Border with Annam -- 6 Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing Frontier Campaigns -- 7 Tributary Relations and the Qing-Choson Frontier on Mount Paektu -- 8 The Amur: As River, as Border -- 9 The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: A Sino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland -- 10 A Zone of Nebulous Menace: The Guangxi/Indochina Border in the Republican Period -- 11 Border Banishment: Rightists in the Army Farms of Beidahuang -- 12 L'état, c'est nous, or We Have Met the Oppressor and He Is Us: The Predicament of Minority Cadres in the PRC -- 13 Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on the Periphery in Contemporary China -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- 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.