Frontier encounters : knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian border / edited by Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace and Caroline Humphrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Humphrey, Caroline, Editor.

Contributor:

Billé, Franck.

Delaplace, Grégory.

Humphrey, Caroline.

Open Book Publishers, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Boundaries.

Soviet Union.

China--Boundaries.

China.

Mongolia--Boundaries.

Mongolia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : OpenBook Publishers, [2012]

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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 their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China's search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia's fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious economic independence of Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its plentiful resources. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and economists, this timely collection of essays offers new perspectives on an area that is currently of enormous economic, strategic and geo-political relevance. This collective volume is the outcome of a network project funded by the ESRC (RES-075-25_0022) entitled 'Where Empires Meet: The Border Economies of Russia, China and Mongolia'. The project, based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (University of Cambridge), ran from 28 January 2010 to 27 January 2011"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. A slightly complicated door: the ethnography and conceptualisation of North Asian borders

2. On ideas of the border in the Russian and Chinese social imaginaries

3. Rethinking borders in Empire and Nation at the foot of the Willow Palisade

4. Concepts of "Russia" and their relation to the border with China

5. Chinese migrants and anti-Chinese sentiments in Russian society

6. The case of the Amur as a cross-border zone of illegality

7. Prostitution and the transformation of the Chinese trading town of Ereen

8. Ritual, memory and the Buriad diaspora notion of home

9. Politicisation of quasi-indigenousness on the Russo-Chinese frontier

10. People of the border: the destiny of the Shenehen Buryats

11. The persistence of the nation-state at the Chinese-Kazakh border

12. Neighbours and their ruins: remembering foreign presences in Mongolia

Appendix 1: Border-crossing infrastructure: the case of the Russian-Mongolian border

Appendix 2: Maps.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 08, 2020).

ISBN:

9781906924904

1906924902

9782821854055

2821854056

9781906924898

1906924899

OCLC:

923317963

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access