The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders
The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders
edited by Martin Saxer and J. Zhang by Willem van Schendel and Tina Harris
Amsterdam University Press, 2017 eISBN: 978-90-485-3262-9 | Cloth: 978-94-6298-258-1 Library of Congress Classification DS740.4.A78 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification 327.51
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
IntroductionThe Art of Neighboring: Managing Relations Across Chinese BordersJuan Zhang and Martin SaxerChapter 1Bright Lights Across the River: Competing Modernities at China's EdgeFranck BilléChapter 2Realms of Free Trade, Enclaves of Order: Chinese-Built "Instant Cities" in Northern LaosPál NyíriChapter 3New Roads, Old Trades: Neighboring China in North-Western NepalMartin SaxerChapter 4Trading on Change: Bazaars and Social Transformation in the Borderlands of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and XinjiangHenryk AlffChapter 5A World Community of Neighbors in the Making: Resource Cosmopolitics and Mongolia's "Third Neighbor" DiplomacyUradyn E. BulagChapter 6The Mobile and the Material in the Himalayan BorderlandsTina HarrisChapter 7Odd Neighbors: Trans-Himalayan Tibetan Itineraries and Chinese Economic DevelopmentChris VasantkumarChapter 8"China Is Paradise": Fortune and Refuge, Brokers and Partners, or the Migration Trajectories of Burmese Muslims toward the Yunnan BorderlandsRenaud EgreteauChapter 9Neighboring in Anxiety along the China-Vietnam BorderJuan ZhangChapter 10China's Animal NeighborsMagnus Fiskesjö