β Scribed by Grant Evans (editor); Christopher Hutton (editor); Khun Eng Kuah (editor)
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This book provides readers with the first survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders between China and mainland Southeast Asia in the early 1990s. There have been radical changes in the economic policies of the various states involved, in particular, China, Vietnam, and Laos. Each chapter provides a close-up survey of a particular area and problem, but cumulatively they provide an invaluable general picture of social and cultural change in the border regions where China meets Southeast Asia.
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: The Disappearing Frontier?
1. Where Nothing Is as It Seems: Between Southeast China and Mainland Southeast Asia in the βPost-Socialistβ Era
2. The Southern Chinese Borders in History
3. Ecology Without Borders
4. Negotiating Central, Provincial, and County Policies: 72 Border Trading in South China
5. The Hmong of the Southeast Asia Massif: 98 Their Recent History of Migration
6. Regional Trade in Northwestern Laos: An Initial Assessment of the Economic Quadrangle
7. Lue across Borders: Pilgrimage and the Muang Sing Reliquary in Northern Laos
8. Transformation of Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, PRC
9. The Hell of Good Intentions: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Opium in the Political Ecology of the Trade in Girls and Women
10. Cross-Border Mobility and Social Networks: Akha Caravan Traders
11. Cross-Border Links between Muslims in Yunnan and Northern Thailand: Identity and Economic Networks
12. Trade Activities of the Hoa along the Sino-Vietnamese Border
13. Cross-Border Categories: Ethnic Chinese and the Sino-Vietnamese Border at Mong Cai
14. Regional Development and Cross-Border Cultural Linkage: The Case of a Vietnamese Community in Guangxi, China
15. Women and Social Change along the Vietnam-Guangxi Border
Index
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