The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2016

The Art of Neighbouring

Making Relations Across China's Borders

Edited by: Martin Saxer and J. Zhang
In collaboration with: Willem Schendel and Tina Harris

Volume 2 in the series Asian Borderlands

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048532629

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About this book

This book gathers contributors from a range of disciplines to look at how people in China's borderland areas are actively engaging in making relationships across the border, and how those interactions are shaping life in the region.

Author / Editor information

Saxer Martin :

Martin Saxer was a Clarendon scholar at Oxford and received his doctorate in 2010. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Siberia, Tibet and Nepal. He currently leads the ERC Starting Grant project Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World.Zhang J. :

Juan Zhang is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New England in Australia. Her work focuses on cross-border mobilities, and transgressive politics in cross-border encounters.Schendel Willem :

Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

Reviews

The Art of Neighbouring addresses a critical gap in existing scholarship on the localized impacts of China’s rise. Through the use of multi-sited and multi-level cases in each of the chapters, it weaves together a rich tapestry of lived experiences that provides nuanced insights into ‘borderworlds’ as loci of Chinese interrelations with its neighbors, and vice versa. - Pichamon Yeophantong, Journal of Chinese Overseas 14 (2018)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Chapters and Locations Open Access Download PDF	8
Foreword and Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction Neighbouring in the Borderworlds along China’s Frontiers Juan Zhang and Martin Saxer Open Access Download PDF	11
Section 1. Borderworlds
1. Bright Lights across the River Competing Modernities at China’s Edge Franck Billé Open Access Download PDF	33
2. Realms of Free Trade, Enclaves of Order Chinese-Built ‘Instant Cities’ in Northern Laos Pál Nyíri Open Access Download PDF	57
3. New Roads, Old Trades Neighbouring China in Nepal Martin Saxer Open Access Download PDF	73
Section 2. Neighbouring beyond Proximity
4. Trading on Change Bazaars and Social Transformation in the Borderlands of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang Henryk Alff Open Access Download PDF	95
5. A World Community of Neighbours in the Making Resource Cosmopolitics and Mongolia’s ‘Third Neighbour’ Diplomacy Uradyn E. Bulag Open Access Download PDF	121
6. The Mobile and the Material in the Himalayan Borderlands Tina Harris Open Access Download PDF	145
Section 3. Agonistic Intensities
7. Odd Neighbours Trans-Himalayan Tibetan Itineraries and Chinese Economic Development Chris Vasantkumar Open Access Download PDF	167
8. ‘China is Paradise’ Fortune and Refuge, Brokers and Partners, or the Migration Trajectories of Burmese Muslims toward the Yunnan Borderlands Renaud Egreteau Open Access Download PDF	187
9. Neighbouring in Anxiety along the China-Vietnam Border Juan Zhang Open Access Download PDF	203
10. China’s Animal Neighbours Magnus Fiskesjö Open Access Download PDF	223
About the Authors Open Access Download PDF	237
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	241
Index Open Access Download PDF	263

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 14
- Other: 11 halftones, 2 line drawings
Keywords: Borders; Asia; China; Anthropology

eBook

Published: November 17, 2016
ISBN: 9789048532629