Where China Meets Southeast Asia : : Social and Cultural Change in the Border Regions / / ed. by Grant Evans, Christopher Hutton, Khun Eng Kuah.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Berlie, Jean,; Cohen, Paul T.,; Culas, Christian,; Eng, Kuah Khun,; Evans, Grant,; Feingold, David A.,; Guangmao, Xie,; Hai, Chau Thi,; Hinton, Peter,; Hutton, Christopher,; Michaud, Jean,; Siu-woo, Cheung,; Toyota, Mika,; Wade, Geoff,; Walker, Andrew,; Yongge, Su,
• HerausgeberIn: Evans, Grant,; Hutton, Christopher,; Kuah, Khun Eng,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 p.)

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. There have been 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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