Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter I
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction 2
6. Soldiers and Scholars on the Frontier 19
7. Missionary Explorers in the Field: The West China Border Research Society, 1922–37 45
8. Frontier Fever: Reporting from the Field 76
9. Chinese Anthropologists at War: Frontier Reconstruction in the Field, 1937–45 101
10. Service in the Field: Wartime Students and the Frontier, 1940–45 128
11. Conclusion 145
12. Glossary 154
13. Notes 158
14. Bibliography 189
15. Index 209