This book provides readers with the first survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders between China and
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Contents
Contributors
Introduction: The Disappearing Frontier?
1. Where Nothing Is as It Seems: Between Southeast China and Mainland Southeast Asia in the “Post-Socialist” Era
2. The Southern Chinese Borders in History
3. Ecology Without Borders
4. Negotiating Central, Provincial, and County Policies: 72 Border Trading in South China
5. The Hmong of the Southeast Asia Massif: 98 Their Recent History of Migration
6. Regional Trade in Northwestern Laos: An Initial Assessment of the Economic Quadrangle
7. Lue across Borders: Pilgrimage and the Muang Sing Reliquary in Northern Laos
8. Transformation of Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, PRC
9. The Hell of Good Intentions: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Opium in the Political Ecology of the Trade in Girls and Women
10. Cross-Border Mobility and Social Networks: Akha Caravan Traders
11. Cross-Border Links between Muslims in Yunnan and Northern Thailand: Identity and Economic Networks
12. Trade Activities of the Hoa along the Sino-Vietnamese Border
13. Cross-Border Categories: Ethnic Chinese and the Sino-Vietnamese Border at Mong Cai
14. Regional Development and Cross-Border Cultural Linkage: The Case of a Vietnamese Community in Guangxi, China
15. Women and Social Change along the Vietnam-Guangxi Border
Index
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