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Frontier encounters : knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian border /

"China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Yet, despite their proximity, their practical, local interactions with each other -- and with their third neighbour Mongolia -- are rarely discussed. The three countries share a boundary, but the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Billé, Franck (Editor ), Delaplace, Grégory (Editor ), Humphrey, Caroline (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A Slightly Complicated Door: The Ethnography and Conceptualisation of North Asian Borders / Grégory Delaplace
  • 2. On Ideas of the Border in the Russian and Chinese Social Imaginaries / Franck Billé
  • 3. Rethinking Borders in Empire and Nation at the Foot of the Willow Palisade / Uradyn E. Bulag
  • 4. Concepts of "Russia" and their Relation to the Border with China / Caroline Humphrey
  • 5. Chinese Migrants and Anti-Chinese Sentiments in Russian Society / Viktor Dyatlov
  • 6. The Case of the Amur as a Cross-Border Zone of Illegality / Natalia Ryzhova
  • 7. Prostitution and the Transformation of the Chinese Trading Town of Ereen / Gaëlle Lacaze
  • 8. Ritual, Memory and the Buriad Diaspora Notion of Home / Sayana Namsaraeva
  • 9. Politicisation of Quasi-Indigenousness on the Russo-Chinese Frontier / Ivan Peshkov
  • 10. People of the Border: The Destiny of the Shenehen Buryats / Marina Baldano
  • 11. The Persistence of the Nation-State at the Chinese-Kazakh Border / Ross Anthony
  • 12. Neighbours and their Ruins: Remembering Foreign Presences in Mongolia / Grégory Delaplace
  • Appendix 1: Border-Crossing Infrastructure: The Case of the Russian-Mongolian Border / Valentin Batomunkuev
  • Appendix 2: Maps.