Frontier encounters [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian border / / edited by Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace and Caroline Humphrey

• Autore: Humphrey Caroline
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, : OpenBook Publishers, [2012]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 327.51047
• Soggetto topico: East Asia, Far East
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union Boundaries; China Boundaries; Mongolia Boundaries
• Soggetto non controllato: russia; asia; mongolia; anthropology; international relations; china; Buryats; Cossacks; Ereen; Dornod; Qing dynasty; Soviet Union
• Altri autori: BilléFranck DelaplaceGrégory HumphreyCaroline
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. A slightly complicated door: the ethnography and conceptualisation of North Asian borders --2. On ideas of the border in the Russian and Chinese social imaginaries --3. Rethinking borders in Empire and Nation at the foot of the Willow Palisade --4. Concepts of "Russia" and their relation to the border with China --5. Chinese migrants and anti-Chinese sentiments in Russian society --6. The case of the Amur as a cross-border zone of illegality --7. Prostitution and the transformation of the Chinese trading town of Ereen --8. Ritual, memory and the Buriad diaspora notion of home --9. Politicisation of quasi-indigenousness on the Russo-Chinese frontier --10. People of the border: the destiny of the Shenehen Buryats --11. The persistence of the nation-state at the Chinese-Kazakh border --12. Neighbours and their ruins: remembering foreign presences in Mongolia --Appendix 1: Border-crossing infrastructure: the case of the Russian-Mongolian border --Appendix 2: Maps.
• Sommario/riassunto: "China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Yet, despite their proximity, their practical, local interactions with each other -- and with their third neighbour Mongolia -- are rarely discussed. The three countries share a boundary, but their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China's search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia's fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious economic independence of Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its plentiful resources. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and economists, this timely collection of essays offers new perspectives on an area that is currently of enormous economic, strategic and geo-political relevance. This collective volume is the outcome of a network project funded by the ESRC (RES-075-25_0022) entitled 'Where Empires Meet: The Border Economies of Russia, China and Mongolia'. The project, based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (University of Cambridge), ran from 28 January 2010 to 27 January 2011"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Frontier encounters
• ISBN: 1-906924-90-2; 2-8218-5405-6; 1-906924-89-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141559803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II