Borderlands in East and Southeast Asia: Emergent Conditions, Relations and Prototypes

ISBN-13: 9780367255176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 116 str.

Yuk Wah Chan; Brantly Womack

Opis

The contributors to this volume analyse how the changing political economy and the regional and international politics of Asia have shaped and reshaped borderland relations in terms of trade, commerce, and tourism. It was originally published as a special issue of Asian Anthropology.

Spis treści

Introduction – Not merely a border: borderland governance, development and transborder relations in Asia  1. Borders, boundaries, horizons and Quemoy in an asymmetric world  2. Mobile North Korean women and their places in the Sino-North Korea borderland  3. The Thai-Burmese borderland: mobilities, regimes, actors and changing political contexts  4. Mongla and the borderland politics of Myanmar  5. "Trust facilitates business, but may also ruin it": the hazardous facets of Sino-Vietnamese border trade  6. A tale of two borderlands: material lucidity and deep play in the transborder tourism space in Hong Kong and Macao

O autorze

Yuk Wah Chan is an anthropologist in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. She works with a wide range of scholars and her research interests cover borderland, migration, tourism, food, heritage, death, and identity. Brantly Womack is C.K. Yen Professor of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of Asymmetry and International Relationships (2016), China among Unequals (2010) and China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (2006).