Frontier encounters knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian border
"China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Yet, despite their proximity, their practical, local interactions with each other -- and with their third neighbour Mongolia -- are rarely discussed. The three countries share a boundary, but the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
OpenBook Publishers
[2012]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430339606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
