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Table of Contents
1. A Slightly Complicated Door: The Ethnography and Conceptualisation of North Asian
Borders
Grégory Delaplace
2. On Ideas of the Border in the Russian and Chinese Social Imaginary
Franck Billé
3. Rethinking Imperial and National Borders at the Foot of the Willow Palisade
Uradyn Bulag
4. Concepts of ‘Russia’ and their Relation to the Border with China
Caroline Humphrey
5. From ‘Yellow Peril’ to the ‘Threat of Chinese Expansion’: Chinese Migrants and AntiChinese Sentiments in Russian Society at the Turn of the Twentieth and Twenty-First
Centuries
Viktor Dyatlov
6. Will the ‘Tragedy of Accessibility’ Occur?: The Case of the Amur as a Cross-Border
Zone of Illegality
Natalia Ryzhova
7. Prostitution and the Transformation of the Chinese Trading Town of Ereen
Gaëlle Lacaze
Frontier Encounters
China, Russia and Mongolia share a boundary,
but their traditions, languages and worldviews
are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters
presents a wide range of views on how the
borders between these unique countries are
enacted, produced and crossed. It sheds light on
global uncertainties: China’s search for energy
resources and the employment of its huge
population, Russia’s fear of Chinese migration,
and the precarious economic independence of
Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its
plentiful resources.
Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists
and economists, this timely collection of essays
offers new perspectives on an area that is currently
of enormous economic, strategic and geo-political
relevance.
THE EDITORS
8. Homeland Across the Border: Ritual and Memory in the Buriad Diaspora Notion of Home
Sayana Namsaraeva
Franck Billé is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology,
University of Cambridge.
9. People in the Shadow of the Soviet Border: Politicisation of Quasi-Indigenousness on
the Russo-Chinese Frontier
Ivan Peshkov
Grégory Delaplace is a social anthropologist, working as a lecturer at the Université
Paris Ouest Nanterre.
10. The Border in the Destiny of the Shenehen Buryats
Marina Baldano
11. The Persistence of the Nation-State at the Chinese-Kazakh Border
Ross Anthony
12. Neighbours and their Ruins: Remembering Foreign Presences in Mongolia
Grégory Delaplace
Appendix 1. Border-crossing Infrastructure and International Cooperation: The Case of
the Russian-Mongolian Border
Valentin Batomunkuev
Appendix 2. Maps
Caroline Humphrey is an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, where
she is Director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.
Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian,
Chinese and Mongolian Border
Edited by Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace and Caroline Humphrey
Publication date: 23 July 2012
Paperback ISBN: 978-1906924-87-4
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