| Description |
xiii, 114 pages : illustrations (map) ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 51 |
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Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 51
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| Contents |
Introduction : borders, globalisation and the state in historical context / Martin Gainsborough -- Unhealthy air of the mountains : Kinh and ethnic minority rule on the Sino-Vietnamese frontier from the fifteenth to the twentieth century / Emmanuel Poisson -- Post-Taiping fallout : Nguyen-Qing collaboration in the pursuit of bandits on the border / Bradley Davis -- The struggle to control land grabbing : state formation on the central highlands frontier under the first Republic of Vietnam (1954-1963) / Stan B-H Tan -- "Community development" on the Sino-Burmese border : villagers, Oxfam and the Chinese state / Miwa Hirono -- The politics of "opening up" : female traders on the borderlands of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) / Kyoko Kusakabe -- Dreaming beyond borders : the Thai/Lao borderlands and the mobility of the marginal / Holly High -- Conclusion : are the Mekong frontiers sites of exception? / Andrew Walker |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Mekong River Region -- Boundaries
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Mekong River Region -- Politics and government
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| Author |
Gainsborough, Martin, 1966-
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| LC no. |
2008021862 |
| ISBN |
9780415414654 (hbk 13) |
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0415414652 (hbk 10) |
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