Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands / Stéphane Gros, Willem van Schendel, Tina Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gros, Stéphane, 1971- editor.

Schendel, Willem van, editor.

Harris, Tina, editor.

Series:

Asian borderlands

Asian Borderlands

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating within the People's Republic of China a space that retains some characteristics of a historical frontier. The region of eastern Tibet called Kham, the focus of this volume, is a productive lens through which processes of place-making and frontier dynamics can be analysed. Using historical records and ethnography, the authors challenge purely externalist approaches to convey a sense of Kham's own centrality and the agency of the actors involved. They contribute to a history from below that is relevant to the history of China and Tibet, and of comparative value for borderland studies.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 104507

ISBN:

9789048544905

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463728713

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access