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Frontier Tibet provides historical and ethnographic narratives of lives in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands in the face of deep political and cultural transformations. Frontier Tibet 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 way 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.
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Keywords
- Asia
- borderland
- borderlands
- China
- East Asia, Far East
- ethnic studies
- Geographical Qualifiers
- Geography
- History
- Human geography
- Identity
- KUnlatched
- Political Science / World / Asian
- Politics
- sino-Tibetan
- Social groups
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- sovereignty
- Territory
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China::1FPCT Tibet
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
- Tibet
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DOI: 10.5117/9789463728713Editions