1st Edition
Chinese Borderlands in Transition Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation
Introduction
Junmin Liu and Fangyi Cheng
Part I: Mobility of cultural borderlands in Southern China
1. Cultivating gu sorcery in the south
Qingfeng Nie
2. How local climate descriptions domesticated borderland areas in the early Qing period (1644–1722)
Erling Agoey
3. From “barbarian rat-eater” to “Chinese rat-eater”: Barbarisation narratives inside and outside China’s southern border
Fangyi Cheng
Part II: Penetration of socio-political borderlands in northern China
4. An analysis of the formation of the Altan Khan Style Tsogchins in Mayidari Juu Monastery
Wei Chen and Zonglin Pi
5. Imagining sacred geographies in western China: Imagery of divine monks from the ninth through the tenth centuries
Clara Ma
6. Fortifying the northern border: Mutiny, migration, and militarisation in 16th-century Datong
Yiming Ha
Part III: Transformation of traditional borderlands in modern China
7. Between Shanghai and Sikkim: The influence of the North-China Herald on the S.S. Kuling project and the opening of Chongqing
Zigui Li
8. Gazing at Taiwan and Hong Kong on a diaspora trail: Revisit Eileen Chang’s bilingual sinophone writings A Return to The Frontier
Nan Qu
9. Between empire and nation: Negotiating colonial heritage in China’s borderland city, Dalian
Yiyang Xiao
10. Ethnic restaurants and Yi migrants’ homemaking practices in Shenzhen
Junmin Liu
Conclusion: Chinese borderlands and the global turn in borderlands scholarship
Robert Batchelor
Biography
Junmin Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of Macau.
Fangyi Cheng is Professor of History in Boya (Liberal Arts) College at Sun Yat-sen University, China.
