Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Chronology of Major Events -- Part I. Borders inside out -- Introduction -- 1. Frontier (of) Experience -- 2. The Increasing Visibility of the Tibetan 'Borderlands' -- 3. Boundaries of the Borderlands -- Part II. Modes of Expansion and Forms of Control -- Introduction -- 4. Trade, Territory, and Missionary Connections in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands -- 5. Settling Authority -- 6. Wheat Dreams -- 7. The Origins of Disempowered Development in the Tibetan Borderlands -- 8. Pastoralists by Choice -- Part III. Strategic Belongings -- Introduction -- 9. Money, Politics, and Local Identity -- 10. The Dispute between Sichuan and Xikang over the Tibetan Kingdom of Trokyap (1930s-1940s) -- 11. The Rise of a Political Strongman in Derg�e in the Early Twentieth Century -- 12. Harnessing the Power of the Khampa Elites -- 13. Return of the Good King -- 14. Yachen as Process -- Afterword -- Index.

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