Bill�e, Franck.
Frontier Encounters : Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border. - 1 online resource (294 pages)
Intro -- Half-Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 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 -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index.
9781906924898
Soviet Union -- Boundaries.
China -- Boundaries.
Mongolia -- Boundaries.
Electronic books.
DK66 -- .F76 2012eb
327.5
Frontier Encounters : Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border. - 1 online resource (294 pages)
Intro -- Half-Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 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 -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index.
9781906924898
Soviet Union -- Boundaries.
China -- Boundaries.
Mongolia -- Boundaries.
Electronic books.
DK66 -- .F76 2012eb
327.5
