Where China Meets Southeast Asia : Social and Cultural Change in the Border Region

by Evans, Grant; Hutton, Chris; Eng, Kuah Khun

• ISBN13: 9780312236342
• ISBN10: 0312236344
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides readers with the first survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders between China and mainland Southeast Asia in the early 1990s, which saw radical changes in the economic policies of the various states involved, in particular, China, Vietnam, and Laos. Each chapter provides a close-up survey of a particular area and problem, but cumulatively they provide an invaluable general picture of social and cultural change in the border regions where China meets Southeast Asia.

Author Biography

Grant Evans is Reader in Anthropology, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong.

Chris Hutton is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of English, University of Hong Kong.

Kuah Khun Eng is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction: The Disappearing Frontier?	1	(6)
Where Nothing Is as It Seems: Between Southeast China and Mainland Southeast Asia in the ``Post-Socialist'' Era	7	(21)
Peter Hinton
The Southern Chinese Borders in History	28	(23)
Geoff Wade
Ecology Without Borders	51	(21)
Su Yongge
Negotiating Central, Provincial, and County Policies: Border Trading in South China	72	(26)
Kuah Khun Eng
The Hmong of the Southeast Asia Massif: Their Recent History of Migration	98	(24)
Jean Michaud
Christian Culas
Regional Trade in Northwestern Laos: An Initial Assessment of the Economic Quadrangle	122	(23)
Andrew Walker
Lue across Borders: Pilgrimage and the Muang Sing Reliquary in Northern Laos	145	(17)
Paul T. Cohen
Transformation of Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, PRC	162	(21)
Grant Evans
The Hell of Good Intentions: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Opium in the Political Ecology of the Trade in Girls and Women	183	(21)
David A. Feingold
Cross-Border Mobility and Social Networks: Akha Caravan Traders	204	(18)
Mika Toyota
Cross-Border Links between Muslims in Yunnan and Northern Thailand: Identity and Economic Networks	222	(14)
Jean Berlie
Trade Activities of the Hoa along the Sino-Vietnamese Border	236	(18)
Chau Thi Hai
Cross-Border Categories: Ethnic Chinese and the Sino-Vietnamese Border at Mong Cai	254	(23)
Christopher Hutton
Regional Development and Cross-Border Cultural Linkage: The Case of a Vietnamese Community in Guangxi, China	277	(35)
Cheung Siu-woo
Women and Social Change along the Vietnam-Guangxi Border	312	(16)
Xie Guangmao
Index	328