1st Edition
Borderlands in East and Southeast Asia Emergent conditions, relations and prototypes
Introduction – Not merely a border: borderland governance, development and transborder relations in Asia Yuk Wah Chan and Brantly Womack
1. Borders, boundaries, horizons and Quemoy in an asymmetric world Brantly Womack
2. Mobile North Korean women and their places in the Sino-North Korea borderland Sung Kyung Kim
3. The Thai-Burmese borderland: mobilities, regimes, actors and changing political contexts Petra Dannecker and Wolfram Schaffar
4. Mongla and the borderland politics of Myanmar Tharaphi Than
5. "Trust facilitates business, but may also ruin it": the hazardous facets of Sino-Vietnamese border trade Caroline Grillot
6. A tale of two borderlands: material lucidity and deep play in the transborder tourism space in Hong Kong and Macao Yuk Wah Chan
Biography
Yuk Wah Chan is an anthropologist in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. She works with a wide range of scholars and her research interests cover borderland, migration, tourism, food, heritage, death, and identity.
Brantly Womack is C.K. Yen Professor of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of Asymmetry and International Relationships (2016), China among Unequals (2010) and China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (2006).
