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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2016.
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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.