Amsterdam University Press
Frontier Tibet
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About this book
Author / Editor information
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.Gros Stéphane :
Stéphane Gros is an anthropologist at the Centre for Himalayan Studies (CNRS, France). He is the author of La Part Manquante (2012), and he recently guest-edited two special issues of relevance to Southwest China (‘Worlds in the making’, Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, no. 23) and Eastern Tibet (‘Frontier Tibet’, Cross-Currents, no. 19).
Reviews
- Xiaobai Hu, Nanjing University, Waxing Moon: Journal of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Vol. 1 (2021)
"This collection of essays strikes me for its "thickness" in terms of its comprehensive content, heuristic novelty, longitudinal lens (mostly nineteenth to twenty-first century), and interdisciplinary cross-fertilization (mostly between history and anthropology). Largely for that reason, I see this volume as both an encyclopedic handbook and an original monograph on Kham and Sino-Tibetan borderlands, or even as a critical scholarly guidebook for borderlands studies writ large."
- Tenzin Jinba, National University of Singapore, The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 79 Issue 4 (2020)
"Stéphane Gros must be congratulated on editing this volume. Frontier Tibet is a unique survey of borderland-oriented research in the context of Sino-Tibetan (or, if one wishes, "Sino-Kham") studies, a rapidly evolving field of scholarship, and the book is an indispensable basis for further research."
- Per Kværne, Asian Ethnology 79/2 (2020)
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Foreword and Acknowledgements
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Chronology of Major Events
19 - Part I. Borders inside out
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Introduction
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1. Frontier (of) Experience
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2. The Increasing Visibility of the Tibetan ‘Borderlands’
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3. Boundaries of the Borderlands
115 - Part II. Modes of Expansion and Forms of Control
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Introduction
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4. Trade, Territory, and Missionary Connections in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
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5. Settling Authority
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6. Wheat Dreams
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7. The Origins of Disempowered Development in the Tibetan Borderlands
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8. Pastoralists by Choice
281 - Part III. Strategic Belongings
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Introduction
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9. Money, Politics, and Local Identity
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10. The Dispute between Sichuan and Xikang over the Tibetan Kingdom of Trokyap (1930s-1940s)
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11. The Rise of a Political Strongman in Dergé in the Early Twentieth Century
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12. Harnessing the Power of the Khampa Elites
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13. Return of the Good King
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14. Yachen as Process
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Afterword
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Index
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