Frontier encounters
Subtitle: knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian border
By: edited by Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace and Caroline Humphrey
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781906924881; 9781906924874
Subjects: Boundaries; Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Slightly Complicated Door : The Ethnography and Conceptualisation of North Asian Borders / Grégory Delaplace; title: On Ideas of the Border in the Russian and Chinese Social Imaginaries / Franck Billé; title: Rethinking Borders in Empire and Nation at the Foot of the Willow Palisade / Uradyn E. Bulag; title: Concepts of 'Russia' and their Relation to the Border with China / Caroline Humphrey; title: Chinese Migrants and Anti-Chinese Sentiments in Russian Society / Viktor Dyatlov; title: The Case of the Amur as a Cross-Border Zone of Illegality / Natalia Ryzhova; title: Prostitution and the Transformation of the Chinese Trading Town of Ereen / Gaëlle Lacaze; title: Ritual, Memory and the Buriad Diaspora Notion of Home / Sayana Namsaraeva; title: Politicisation of Quasi-Indigenousness on the Russo-Chinese Frontier / Ivan Peshkov; title: People of the Border : The Destiny of the Shenehen Buryats / Marina Baldano; title: The Persistence of the Nation-State at the Chinese-Kazakh Border / Ross Anthony; title: Neighbours and their Ruins : Remembering Foreign Presences in Mongolia / Grégory Delaplace.