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

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The Art of Neighbouring

Making Relations Across China's Borders

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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.

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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
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Contents
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Chapters and Locations
8

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Foreword and Acknowledgements
9

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Introduction
11
Juan Zhang and Martin Saxer

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Section 1. Borderworlds
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1. Bright Lights across the River
33
Franck Billé

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2. Realms of Free Trade, Enclaves of Order
57
Pál Nyíri

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3. New Roads, Old Trades
73
Martin Saxer

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Section 2. Neighbouring beyond Proximity
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4. Trading on Change
95
Henryk Alff

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5. A World Community of Neighbours in the Making
121
Uradyn E. Bulag

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6. The Mobile and the Material in the Himalayan Borderlands
145
Tina Harris

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Section 3. Agonistic Intensities
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7. Odd Neighbours
167
Chris Vasantkumar

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8. ‘China is Paradise’
187
Renaud Egreteau

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9. Neighbouring in Anxiety along the China-Vietnam Border
203
Juan Zhang

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10. China’s Animal Neighbours
223
Magnus Fiskesjö

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About the Authors
237

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Bibliography
241

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Index
263

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November 5, 2018

eBook ISBN:

9789048532629

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280

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14

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048532629

eBook ISBN: 9789048532629

Keywords for this book

Borders; Asia; China; Anthropology

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Professional and scholarly;

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The Art of Neighbouring

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Chapters and Locations

Foreword and Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Bright Lights across the River

2. Realms of Free Trade, Enclaves of Order

3. New Roads, Old Trades

4. Trading on Change

5. A World Community of Neighbours in the Making

6. The Mobile and the Material in the Himalayan Borderlands

7. Odd Neighbours

8. ‘China is Paradise’

9. Neighbouring in Anxiety along the China-Vietnam Border

10. China’s Animal Neighbours

About the Authors

Bibliography

Index

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