LEADER 04171oam 22006974a 450 001 9910255447103321 005 20240529170838.0 010 $a0-8014-5450-6 010 $a0-8014-7967-3 010 $a0-8014-5451-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801454516 035 $a(CKB)2670000000587445 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001404989 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12632498 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001404989 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11381186 035 $a(PQKB)10874971 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001516655 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138699 035 $a(OCoLC)1056846324 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58238 035 $a(DE-B1597)478573 035 $a(OCoLC)904979076 035 $a(OCoLC)979740735 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801454516 035 $a(ScCtBLL)b9d94742-9bca-4ab9-b7c3-637a3c0eb42d 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000587445 100 $a20140519h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond Borders$eStories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma /$fWen-Chin Chang 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-5331-3 311 $a1-322-50310-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index. 327 $aMigration history -- The days in Burma: Zhang Dage -- Entangled love: Ae Maew -- Pursuit of ambition: father and son -- Islamic transnationalism: Yunnanese Muslims -- (Transnational) trade -- Venturing into barbarous regions: Yunnanese caravan traders -- Transcending gendered geographies: Yunnanese women traders -- Circulations of the jade trade: the Duans and the Pengs -- Epilogue: from mules to vehicles. 330 $aThe Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. Through a personal narrative approach, Beyond Borders is the first ethnography to focus on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants (composed of both Yunnanese Han and Muslims) who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma and resettled in Thailand, Taiwan, and China.Since the 1960s, Yunnanese Chinese migrants of Burma have dominated the transnational trade in opium, jade, and daily consumption goods. Wen-Chin Chang writes with deep knowledge of this trade's organization from the 1960s of mule-driven caravans to the use of modern transportation, and she reconstructs trading routes while examining embedded sociocultural meanings. These Yunnanese migrants' mobility attests to the prevalence of travel not only by the privileged but also by different kinds of people. Their narratives disclose individual life processes as well as networks of connections, modes of transportation, and differences between the experiences of men and women. Through traveling they have carried on the mobile livelihoods of their predecessors, expanding overland trade beyond its historical borderlands between Yunnan and upland Southeast Asia to journeys further afield by land, sea, and air. 606 $aMuslims$zBurma 606 $aChinese$zBurma 606 $aChinese$xMigrations 607 $aThailand$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aChina$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aBurma$xEmigration and immigration 615 0$aMuslims 615 0$aChinese 615 0$aChinese$xMigrations. 676 $a305.895/10591 700 $aChang$b Wen-Chin$f1964-$0915229 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255447103321 996 $aBeyond Borders$92435752 997 $aUNINA