1st Edition
Frontier Tibet Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Edited By Stéphane Gros
Copyright 2020
554 Pages
by
Routledge
554 Pages
by
Routledge
Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 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... Read more
Foreword and Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Chronology of Events, PART I: BORDERS INSIDE OUT, PART II: MODES OF EXPANSION AND FORMS OF CONTROL, PART III: STRATEGIC BELONGINGS, AFTERWORD, Index
Biography
Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include >A History of Bangladesh> (2020), >Embedding Agricultural Commodities> (2017, ed.), >The Camera as Witness> (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.
