Title: On the borders of state power : frontiers in the greater Mekong sub-region /
Authors: Gainsborough, Martin, 1966-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Mekong River Region Boundaries.; Mekong River Region Politics and government.
Contents: Introduction : borders, globalisation and the state in historical context / Martin Gainsborough -- Unhealthy air of the mountains : kinh and ethnic minority rule on the Sino-Vietnamese frontier from the fifteenth to the twentieth century / Emmanuel Poisson -- Post-Taiping fallout : Nguyen-Qing collaboration in the pursuit of bandits on the border / Bradley C. Davis -- The struggle to control land grabbing : state formation on the Central Highlands frontier under the first Republic of Vietnam (1954-63) / Stan B-H Tan -- 'Community development' on the Sino-Burmese border : villagers, Oxfam and the Chinese state / Miwa Hirono -- The politics of 'opening up' : female traders on the borderlands of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) / Kyoko Kusakabe -- Dreaming beyond borders : the Thai/Lao borderlands and the mobility of the marginal / Holly High -- Conclusion : are the Mekong frontiers sites of exception? / Andrew Walker.