Where China Meets Southeast Asia: Social & Cultural Change in the Border Regions

356 Pages·2000·3.14 MB·English

by  Grant Evans

CHINA
Where Meets
SOUTHEAST ASIA
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CHINA
Where Meets
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Social & Cultural Change
in the Border Regions
edited by
Grant Evans
Christopher Hutton
Kuah Khun Eng
Palgrave Macmillan
INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, Singapore
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Where China meets Southeast Asia : social and cultural change in the border regions
/ edited by Grant Evans, Christopher Hutton, Kuah Khun Eng.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-349-63100-1 ISBN 978-1-137-11123-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-11123-4
1. China--Foreign economic relations--Indochina. 2. Indochina--Foreign
economic relations--China. 3. China--Foreign economic relations--Burma.
4. Burma--Foreign economic relations--China. 5. China--Boundaries--Indochina.
6. Indochina--Boundaries--China. 7. China--Boundaries--Burma. 8. Burma-
Boundaries--China. I. Evans, Grant, 1948-II. Hutton, Christopher. III. Kuah,
KhunEng.
HF1604.Z4I489 2000
303.4'8251 059--dc21 00-035258
ISBN 978-981-230-040-9 (hardcover, ISEAS, Singapore)
ISBN 978-981-230-071-3 (softcover, ISEAS, Singapore)
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Contents
Contributors
Vtt
Introduction: The Disappearing Frontier? 1
The Editors
1. Where Nothing Is as It Seems: Between Southeast China 7
and Mainland Southeast Asia in the "Post-Socialist" Era
Peter HINTON
2. The Southern Chinese Borders in History 28
GeoffWADE
3. Ecology Without Borders 51
SUYongge
4. Negotiating Central, Provincial, and County Policies: 72
Border Trading in South China
KUAH Khun Eng
5. The Hmong of the Southeast Asia Massif: 98
Their Recent History of Migration
]ean MICHAUD and Christian CULAS
vi Col'ltel'lts
6. Regional Trade in Northwestern Laos: 122
An Initial Assessment of the Economic Quadrangle
Andrew WALKER
7. Lue across Borders: Pilgrimage and the 145
Muang Sing Reliquary in Northern Laos
PaulTCOHEN
8. Transformation of Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, PRC 162
Grant EVANS
9. The Hell of Good Intentions: Some Preliminary 183
Thoughts on Opium in the Political Ecology
of the Trade in Girls and Women
David A. FEINGOLD
10. Cross-Border Mobility and Social Networks: 204
Akha Caravan Traders
Mika TOYOTA
11. Cross-Border Links between Muslims 222
in Yunnan and Northern Thailand:
Identity and Economic Networks
]eanBERLIE
12. Trade Activities of the Hoa along 236
the Sino-Vietnamese Border
CHAUThiHai
13. Cross-Border Categories: Ethnic Chinese and 254
the Sino-Vietnamese Border at Mong Cai
Christopher HUTTON
14. Regional Development and Cross-Border 277
Cultural Linkage: The Case of a Vietnamese
Community in Guangxi, China
CHEUNG Siu-woo
15. Women and Social Change along the 312
Vietnam-Guangxi Border
XIE Guangmao
Index 328
Contributors
Jean BERLIE is Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
CHAU Thi Hai is Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies, 27 Tran Xuan Soan, Hanoi, SR Vietnam. Fax: [phone]
CHEUNG Siu-Woo is Assistant Professor ofA nthropology at the School
of Humanities, University of Science and Technology, New Territories,
Hong Kong. E-mail: [email protected].
Paul T. COHEN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropol
ogy, University of Macquarie, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia. E
mail: [email protected].
Christian CULAS is Research Associate at the Institut de Recherche sur
le Sud-EstAsiatique (IRSEA-CNRS), 389, av. du Club Hippique, 13034
Aix-en-Provence, Cedex 2, France. E-mail: [email protected].
Grant EVANS is Reader in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology,
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. E-mail: [email protected].
David A. FEINGOLD is Director Ophidian Research Institute, P.O.
viii Contribc.tors
Box 967, Prakanong, Bangkok 10110, Thailand. [email protected].
Peter HINTON is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropol
ogy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. E-mail:
peter.hinton@anthropology. usyd.edu.au.
Christopher HUTTON is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the De
partment of English, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. E-mail:
[email protected].
KUAH Khun Eng is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the De
partment of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. E-mail:
[email protected].
Jean MICHAUD is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Asian
Studies, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, U.K. E-mail:
j [email protected]. uk.
SU Yongge is Research Fellow at the Yunnan Institute of Botany Chi
nese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Heilongtan 650204, People's Re
public of China.
Mika TOYOTA is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics and
Asian Studies, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, U.K. E-mail:
m. [email protected]. uk.
GeoffWADE is Research Officer at the Centre of Asian Studies, Uni
versity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. E-mail: [email protected].
Andrew WALKER is Research Fellow in the Department ofA nthropol
ogy, RSPAS, ANU, Canberra, ACT, Australia. E-mail:
[email protected].
XIE Guangmao is Curator at the Museum of Guangxi, Minzu Road,
Nanning 530022, Guangxi, People's Republic of China.
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