Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Foreword and Acknowledgements 9
4. Chronology of Major Events 19
5. Part I. Borders inside out
6. Introduction 37
7. 1. Frontier (of) Experience 41
8. 2. The Increasing Visibility of the Tibetan ‘Borderlands’ 85
9. 3. Boundaries of the Borderlands 115
10. Part II. Modes of Expansion and Forms of Control
11. Introduction 143
12. 4. Trade, Territory, and Missionary Connections in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 151
13. 5. Settling Authority 179
14. 6. Wheat Dreams 217
15. 7. The Origins of Disempowered Development in the Tibetan Borderlands 255
16. 8. Pastoralists by Choice 281
17. Part III. Strategic Belongings
18. Introduction 307
19. 9. Money, Politics, and Local Identity 313
20. 10. The Dispute between Sichuan and Xikang over the Tibetan Kingdom of Trokyap (1930s-1940s) 337
21. 11. The Rise of a Political Strongman in Dergé in the Early Twentieth Century 363
22. 12. Harnessing the Power of the Khampa Elites 411
23. 13. Return of the Good King 453
24. 14. Yachen as Process 489
25. Afterword 517
26. Index 541