Frontier Tibet

Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-17989-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 554 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Asian Borderlands

Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating within the People's Republic of China a space that retains some characteristics of a historical frontier. The region of eastern Tibet called Kham, the focus of this volume, is a productive lens through which processes of place-making and frontier dynamics can be analysed. Using historical records and ethnography, the authors challenge purely externalist approaches to convey a sense of Kham's own centrality and the agency of the actors involved. They contribute to a history from below that is relevant to the history of China and Tibet, and of comparative value for borderland studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gros, Stephane

Gros, Stéphane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword and Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Chronology of Events, PART I: BORDERS INSIDE OUT, PART II: MODES OF EXPANSION AND FORMS OF CONTROL, PART III: STRATEGIC BELONGINGS, AFTERWORD, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Willem 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. >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).