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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Willem van Schendel , Tina Harris , Stéphane Gros , Katia Buffetrille (EPHE)Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press Edition: 0 Volume: 10 ISBN: 9789463728713ISBN 10: 9463728716 Pages: 554 Publication Date: 17 December 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Adult education , Professional & Vocational , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Chronology of Events PART I: BORDERS INSIDE OUT INTRODUCTION 1 Frontier (of) Experience: Introduction and Prolegomenon, by Stéphane Gros 2 The Increasing Visibility of the Tibetan 'Borderlands', by Katia Buffetrille 3 Boundaries of the Borderlands: Mapping Gyelthang, by Eric Mortensen PART II: MODES OF EXPANSION AND FORMS OF CONTROL INTRODUCTION 4 Trade, Territory and Missionary Connections in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, by John Bray 5 Settling Authority: Sichuanese Farmers in Early-Twentieth Century Eastern Tibet, by Scott Relyea 6 Wheat Dreams: Scientific Interventions at Chinese Model Farms in Kham, 1937-1949, by Mark Frank 7 The Origins of Disempowered Development in the Tibetan Borderlands, by C. Patterson Giersch 8 Pastoralists by Choice: Adaptations in Contemporary Pastoralism in Eastern Kham, by Gillian Tan PART III: STRATEGIC BELONGINGS INTRODUCTION 9 Money, Politics, and Local Identity: An Inside Look at the 'Diary' of a Twentieth Century Khampa Trader, by Lucia Galli 10 The Dispute Between Sichuan and Xikang over the Tibetan Kingdom of Trokyap (1930s?1940s), by Fabienne Jagou 11 Rise of a Political Strongman in Dergé in the Early-Twentieth Century: A Story of Jagö Topden, by Yudru Tsomu 12 Harnessing the Power of the Khampa Elites: Political Persuasion and the Consolidation of Communist Party Rule in Gyelthang, by Dá¿a Mortensen 13 Return of the Good King: Kingship and Identity among Yushu Tibetans since 1951, by Maria Turek 14 Yachen as Process: Encampments, Nuns, and Spatial Politics in Post-Mao Kham, by Yasmin Cho AFTERWORD, by Carole McGranahan IndexReviewsStephane Gros must be congratulated on editing this volume. Frontier Tibet is a unique survey of borderland-oriented research in the context of Sino-Tibetan (or, if one wishes, Sino-Kham ) studies, a rapidly evolving field of scholarship, and the book is an indispensable basis for further research. - Per Kvaerne, Asian Ethnology 79/2 (2020) Author InformationWillem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel. Stéphane Gros is an anthropologist at the Centre for Himalayan Studies (CNRS, France). He is the author of La Part Manquante (2012), and he recently guest-edited two special issues of relevance to Southwest China (‘Worlds in the making’, Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, no. 23) and Eastern Tibet (‘Frontier Tibet’, Cross-Currents, no. 19). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |