Where China Meets Southeast Asia: Social and Cultural Change in the Border Region

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Overview

This book provides readers with the first survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders between China and mainland Southeast Asia in the early 1990s, which saw radical changes in the economic policies of the various states involved, in particular, China, Vietnam, and Laos. Each chapter provides a close-up survey of a particular area and problem, but cumulatively they provide an invaluable general picture of social and cultural change in the border regions where China meets Southeast Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312236342
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/18/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Grant Evans is Reader in Anthropology, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong.

Chris Hutton is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of English, University of Hong Kong.

Kuah Khun Eng is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Disappeaing Frontier?—The Editors
• Where Nothing Is as It Seems: Between South China and Mainland Southeast Asia in the "Post-Socialist" Era—Peter Hinton
• The Southern Chinese Borders in History—Geoff Wade
• Ecology without Borders—Su Yongge
• Negotiating Central, Provinicial, and County Policies: Border Trading in South China—Kuah Khun Eng
• The Hmong of the Southeast Asia Massif: Their Recent History of Migration—Jean Michaud & Christian Culas
• Regional Trade in Northwestern Laos: An Initial Assessment of the Economic Quadrangle—Andrew Walker
• Lue across Borders: Pilgrimage and the Muang Sing Reliquary in Northern Laos—Paul T. Cohen
• The Transformation of Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, PRC—Grant Evans
• The Hell of Good Intentions: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Opium in the Political Ecology of the Trade in Girls and Women—David A. Feingold
• Cross-Border Mobility and Social Networks: Akha Caravan Traders—Mike Toyota
• Cross-Border Links between Muslims in Yunnan and Northern Thailand: Identity and Economic Networks—Jean Berlie
• Trade Activities of the Hoa along the Sino-Vietnamese Border—Dr. Chau Thi Hai
• Cross-Border Categories: Ethnic Chinese and the Sino-Vietnamese Border at Mong Cai—Christopher Hutton
• Regional Development and Cross-Border Cultural Linkage: The Case of a Vietnamese Community in Guangxi, China—Cheung Siu-woo
• Women and Social Change along the Vietnam-Guangxi Border—Xie Guang-mao

Editorial Reviews

Social scientists, linguists, and poetical analysts from Asia and Australia focus on the physical border between China and mainland Southeast Asia to explore the new social and political alignments generated by the economic changes in the region and their impact on both mainstream and marginal and minority groups in hitherto remote areas. Their topics include the southern Chinese borders in history, recent migrations of the Hmong, and women and social change along the Vietnam-Guangxi border. The 15 studies were written before the Asian economic turndown, but the trends they describe are still in force. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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