Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gros, Stéphane.
Other Authors: Schendel, Willem., Harris, Tina.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Asian Borderlands Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword and Acknowledgements
  • Chronology of Major Events
  • Part I. Borders inside out
  • Introduction
  • 1. Frontier (of) Experience
  • 2. The Increasing Visibility of the Tibetan 'Borderlands'
  • 3. Boundaries of the Borderlands
  • Part II. Modes of Expansion and Forms of Control
  • Introduction
  • 4. Trade, Territory, and Missionary Connections in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
  • 5. Settling Authority
  • 6. Wheat Dreams
  • 7. The Origins of Disempowered Development in the Tibetan Borderlands
  • 8. Pastoralists by Choice
  • Part III. Strategic Belongings
  • Introduction
  • 9. Money, Politics, and Local Identity
  • 10. The Dispute between Sichuan and Xikang over the Tibetan Kingdom of Trokyap (1930s-1940s)
  • 11. The Rise of a Political Strongman in Dergé in the Early Twentieth Century
  • 12. Harnessing the Power of the Khampa Elites
  • 13. Return of the Good King
  • 14. Yachen as Process
  • Afterword
  • Index.