Frontier encounters knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian border
"China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Yet, despite their proximity, their practical, local interactions with each other -- and with their third neighbour Mongolia -- are rarely discussed. The three countries share a boundary, but the...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK
Open Book Publishers
2012, 2013
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A Slightly Complicated Door: The Ethnography and Conceptualisation of North Asian Borders / Grégory Delaplace
- 2. On Ideas of the Border in the Russian and Chinese Social Imaginaries / Franck Billé
- 3. Rethinking Borders in Empire and Nation at the Foot of the Willow Palisade / Uradyn E. Bulag
- 4. Concepts of "Russia" and their Relation to the Border with China / Caroline Humphrey
- 5. Chinese Migrants and Anti-Chinese Sentiments in Russian Society / Viktor Dyatlov
- 6. The Case of the Amur as a Cross-Border Zone of Illegality / Natalia Ryzhova
- 7. Prostitution and the Transformation of the Chinese Trading Town of Ereen / Gaëlle Lacaze
- 8. Ritual, Memory and the Buriad Diaspora Notion of Home / Sayana Namsaraeva
- 9. Politicisation of Quasi-Indigenousness on the Russo-Chinese Frontier / Ivan Peshkov
- 10. People of the Border: The Destiny of the Shenehen Buryats / Marina Baldano
- 11. The Persistence of the Nation-State at the Chinese-Kazakh Border / Ross Anthony
- 12. Neighbours and their Ruins: Remembering Foreign Presences in Mongolia / Grégory Delaplace
- Appendix 1: Border-Crossing Infrastructure: The Case of the Russian-Mongolian Border / Valentin Batomunkuev
- Appendix 2: Maps
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index