The Art of Neighbouring
Making Relations Across China's Borders
Published on 1. October 2025
268 pages
978-1-040-78502-7 (ISBN)
Description
For the nations on its borders, the rapid rise of China represents an opportunity-but it also brings worry, especially in areas that have long been disputed territories of contact and exchange. This book gathers contributors from a range of disciplines to look at how people in those areas are actively engaging in making relationships across the border, and how those interactions are shaping life in the region-and in the process helping to reconfigure the cultural and political landscape of post-Cold War Asia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
13,03 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-78502-7 (9781040785027)
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Persons
Martin Saxer was a Clarendon scholar at Oxford and received his doctorate in 2010. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Siberia, Tibet and Nepal. He currently leads the ERC Starting Grant project Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World. Juan Zhang is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New England in Australia. Her work focuses on cross-border mobilities, and transgressive politics in cross-border encounters. 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.
Content
Introduction, Neighbouring in the Borderworlds along China's Frontiers Juan Zhang and Martin Saxer, Chapter 1 Bright Lights Across the River: Competing Modernities at China's Edge Franck Bille Chapter 2 Realms of Free Trade, Enclaves of Order: Chinese-Built 'Instant Cities' in Northern Laos Pal Nyiri Chapter 3 New Roads, Old Trades: Neighbouring China in Northwestern Nepal Martin Saxer Chapter 4 Trading on Change: Bazaars and Social Transformation in the Borderlands of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang Henryk Alff Chapter 5 A World Community of Neighbours in the Making: Resource Cosmopolitics and Mongolia's 'Third Neighbour' Diplomacy Uradyn E. Bulag Chapter 6 The Mobile and the Material in the Himalayan Borderlands Tina Harris Chapter 7 Odd Neighbours: Trans-Himalayan Tibetan Itineraries and Chinese Economic Development Chris Vasantkumar Chapter 8 'China Is Paradise': Fortune and Refuge, Brokers and Partners, or the Migration Trajectories of Burmese Muslims toward the Yunnan Borderlands Renaud Egreteau Chapter 9 Neighbouring in Anxiety along the China-Vietnam Border Juan Zhang Chapter 10 China's Animal Neighbours Magnus Fiskesjoe, Bibliography.
