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

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 activ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saxer, Martin
Otros Autores: Zhang, Juan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
Colección:Asian borderlands.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Chapters and Locations; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Neighbouring in the Borderworlds along China's Frontiers / Juan Zhang and Martin Saxer; Section 1
  • Borderworlds; 1. Bright Lights across the River: Competing Modernities at China's Edge / Franck Billé; 2. Realms of Free Trade, Enclaves of Order: Chinese-Built 'Instant Cities' in Northern Laos / Pál Nyíri; 3. New Roads, Old Trades: Neighbouring China in North Western Nepal / Martin Saxer; Section 2
  • Neighbouring beyond Proximity.
  • 4. Trading on Change: Bazaars and Social Transformation in the Borderlands of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang / Henryk Alff5. A World Community of Neighbours in the Making: Resource Cosmopolitics and Mongolia's 'Third Neighbour' Diplomacy / Uradyn E. Bulag; 6. The Mobile and the Material in the Himalayan Borderlands / Tina Harris; Section 3
  • Agonistic Intensities; 7. Odd Neighbours: Trans-Himalayan Tibetan Itineraries and Chinese Economic Development / Chris Vasantkumar.
  • 8. 'China is Paradise' : Fortune and Refuge, Brokers and Partners, or the Migration Trajectories of Burmese Muslims toward the Yunnan Borderlands / Renaud Egreteau9. Neighbouring in Anxiety along the China-Vietnam Border / Juan Zhang; 10. China's Animal Neighbours / Magnus Fiskesjö; About the Authors; Bibliography; Index; List of Figures; Figure 0.1
  • Overview map of locations; Figure 1.1
  • Depiction of Heihe and Blagoveshchensk by a 20 year-old female student, Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, 2011.
  • Figure 1.2
  • Depiction of Heihe and Blagoveshchensk by a 20 year-old male student, Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, 2011Figure 1.3
  • Emphasis on the linear and grid-like quality of Blagoveshchensk in student drawings, Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, 2011; Figure 1.4
  • Emphasis on the linear and grid-like quality of Blagoveshchensk in student drawings, Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, 2011; Figure 2.1
  • Condos at Golden Boten City. Danielle Tan, 2012; Figure 2.2
  • The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone seen from the Thai side of the Mekong.
  • Figure 2.3
  • The KingsRomans casino by nightFigure 3.1
  • The shop in Tukling, Limi; Figure 3.2
  • Map of Humla; Figure 3.3
  • Paljor's camp; Figure 3.4
  • Simikot airport; Figure 4.1
  • Borderlands of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang; Figure 4.2
  • Dordoi Bazaar's main passageway, Bishkek; Figure 6.1
  • "Diverse Merchandise"
  • a 1947 advertisement from the Tibet Mirror; Figure 6.2
  • Map of the Sikkim, Tibet, and India; Figure 8.1
  • Map of China-Myanmar Borderlands; Figure 9.1
  • The 2007 Border Trade fair, Lao Cai; Figure 9.2
  • Empty Booths at the Trade Fair, Lao Cai.