Full Description
For the nations on its borders, the rapid rise of China represents an opportunity-but it also brings worry, especially in areas that have long been disputed territories of contact and exchange. This book gathers contributors from a range of disciplines to look at how people in those areas are actively engaging in making relationships across the border, and how those interactions are shaping life in the region-and in the process helping to reconfigure the cultural and political landscape of post-Cold War Asia.
Contents
Introduction Neighbouring in the Borderworlds along China's Frontiers Juan Zhang and Martin Saxer Chapter 1 Bright Lights Across the River: Competing Modernities at China's Edge Franck Billé Chapter 2 Realms of Free Trade, Enclaves of Order: Chinese-Built 'Instant Cities' in Northern Laos Pál Nyíri Chapter 3 New Roads, Old Trades: Neighbouring China in Northwestern Nepal Martin Saxer Chapter 4 Trading on Change: Bazaars and Social Transformation in the Borderlands of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang Henryk Alff Chapter 5 A World Community of Neighbours in the Making: Resource Cosmopolitics and Mongolia's 'Third Neighbour' Diplomacy Uradyn E. Bulag Chapter 6 The Mobile and the Material in the Himalayan Borderlands Tina Harris Chapter 7 Odd Neighbours: Trans-Himalayan Tibetan Itineraries and Chinese Economic Development Chris Vasantkumar Chapter 8 'China Is Paradise': Fortune and Refuge, Brokers and Partners, or the Migration Trajectories of Burmese Muslims toward the Yunnan Borderlands Renaud Egreteau Chapter 9 Neighbouring in Anxiety along the China-Vietnam Border Juan Zhang Chapter 10 China's Animal Neighbours Magnus Fiskesjö Bibliography
