Frontier Tibet : : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands.

• Superior document: Asian Borderlands Series ; v.10
• Author: van Schendel, Willem.
• TeilnehmendeR: Harris, Tina.; Gros, Stéphane.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2019.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Borderlands Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (554 pages)

Table of Contents

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 Dergé 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.