Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.

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2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Song dynasty historian Hong Mai (1123–1202) spent a lifetime on a collection of supernatural accounts, contemporary inc