TY - BOOK AU - Zhang,Juan AU - Saxer,Martin ED - Project Muse. TI - The Art of Neighbouring : : Making Relations Across China's Borders / T2 - Asian borderlands SN - 9789048532629 PY - 2017///] CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - International relations KW - fast KW - Boundaries KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - East Asia, Far East KW - bicssc KW - China KW - Asia KW - Relations KW - Humor KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 Bille -- 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; Open Access N2 - "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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66437/ ER -