Part I. Shifting the southern frontier
Where to draw the line? The Chinese southern frontier in the fifth and sixth centuries / Catherine Churchman
Constructing local narratives: spirits, dreams, and prophecies in the medieval Red River Delta / Liam Kelley
Man and Mongols: the Dali and Dai Viet kingdoms in the face of the northern invasions / James Anderson
Yunnan's Muslim heritage / Michael Brose
Gunsmoke: the Ming invasion of Dai Viet and the role of firearms in forging the southern frontier / Kenneth Swope
A state agent at odds with the state: Lin Xiyuan and the Ming recovery of the Four Dong / Kathlene Baldanza
Part II. Shaping the southern frontier
Imperial ideal compromised: northern and southern courts across the new frontier in the early yuan era / Sun Laichen
Northern relations for dai viet: china policy in the age of Le Thanh Tong (r. 1460-1497) / John Whitmore
Projecting legitimacy in Ming native domains / Joseph Dennis
Royal refuge and heterodoxy: the Vietnamese Mac Clan in Great Qing's southern frontier, 1677-1730 / Alexander On
The rule of ritual: crimes and justice in Qing-Vietnamese relations during the Qianlong Period (1736-1796) / Jaymin Kim
Volatile allies: two cases of powerbrokers in the nineteenth century Vietnamese-Chinese borderlands / Bradley Davis
Depicting life in the twentieth-century Sino-Tibetan borderlands: local histories and modernities in the career and photography of Zhuang Xueben (1909-1984) / Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
From land to water: fixing fluid frontiers and the politics of lines in the South China/Eastern Sea / Kenneth MacLean
Asymmetric structure and culture in China's relations with its southern neighbors / Brantly Womack.