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 C...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben

Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:	Asian borderlands
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Grenzgebiet Tibet China Tibet Autonomous Region (China) / Boundaries Borderlands / China / Tibet Autonomous Region Tibet Autonomous Region (China) / History
Zusammenfassung:	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 ways 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
Beschreibung:	554 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm
ISBN:	9789463728713 9463728716