Art of neighbouring : making relations across china's borders / edited by Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang.

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"Rising China"--The nation, the notion, and the buzzword - sparks dreams and triggers fears. Borders that were closed during the Cold War era have again become zones of contact and exchange. At the same time, security concerns remain high, territorial disputes still loom large. In this context, engaging in everyday neighbouring relations has become a necessity for those living in these zones of contact and exchange. The experiences and realities of relation-making across China's borders shape life in profound and lasting ways

Neighbouring in the borderworlds along China's frontiers / Juan Zhang and Martin Saxer -- Section 1 Borderworlds -- Bright lights across the river : competing modernities at China's edge / Franck Billé -- Realms of free trade, enclaves of order : Chinese-built 'instant cities' in northern Laos / Pál Nyíri -- New roads, old trades : neighbouring China in Nepal / Martin Saxer -- Section 2 Neighbouring beyond proximity -- Trading on change : bazaars and social transformation in the borderlands of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang / Henryk Alff -- A world of community of neighbours in the making : resource cosmopolitics and Mongolia's 'third neighbour' diplomacy / Uradyn E. Bulag -- The mobile and the material in the Himalayan borderlands / Tina Harris -- Section 3 Agonistic intensities -- Odd neighbours : trans-himalayan Tibetan itineraries and Chinese economic development / Chris Vasantkumar -- 'China is Paradise' : fortune and refuge, brokers and partners, or the migration trajectories of Burmese Muslims toward the Yunnan borderlands / Renaud Egreteau -- Neighbouring in anxiety along the China-Vietnam border / Juan Zhang -- China's animal neighbours / Magnus Fiskesjö.

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