Jean Michaud is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval. Tim Forsyth is a reader in environment and development at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Contributors: Steeve Daviau, Olivier Évrard, Tim Forsyth, Stéphane Gros, Terry McGee, John McKinnon, Marie Mellac, Jean Michaud, Janet C. Sturgeon, Margaret Byrne Swain, Claire Tugault-Lafleur, and Sarah Turner

This expertly edited and unusually coherent collection of enlightening essays on livelihoods and cultural identities in the post-socialist situations of China, Vietnam and Laos, adds usefully to the emerging literature on the borderlands of what the editors call the "Southeast Asian Massif"...this well-edited book is an argument for and demonstration of the value of good ethnography in the developmental context and as such it deserves to be very widely read. - Nicholas Tapp, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Professor Emeritus, Australian National University (The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology) … this book is much more than a collection of individually interesting case study chapters. There is an argument that weaves its way through the text. After an intriguing foreword from Terry McGee where he connects his interest in urban change with the book's concern with highland change, there are eight core chapters bookended by a substantial introduction from the editors, editors, and a rather briefer conclusion. - Jonathan Rigg (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 2013)

• IllustrationsForeword / Terry McGeeAcknowledgments1 Rethinking the Relationships between Livelihoods and Ethnicity in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos / Tim Forsyth and Jean Michaud2 Economic Marginalization and Social Identity among the Drung People of Northwest Yunnan / Stéphane Gros3 Integration of a Lineage Society on the Laos-Vietnam Border / Steeve Daviau4 Oral Histories of Livelihoods and Migration under Socialism and Post-Socialism among the Khmu of Northern Laos / Olivier Évrard5 Of Rice and Spice: Hmong Livelihood and Diversification in the Northern Vietnam Uplands / Claire Tugault-Lafleur and Sarah Turner6 Hani Agency and Ways of Seeing Environmental Change on the China-Vietnam Border / John McKinnon7 Land Reform and Changing Identities in Two Tai-Speaking Districts in Northern Vietnam / Marie Mellac8 Commoditized Ethnicity for Tourism Development in Yunnan / Margaret Byrne Swain9 Rubber Transformations: Post-Socialist Livelihoods and Identities for Akha and Tai Lue Farmers in Xishuangbanna, China / Janet C. Sturgeon10 Conclusion: Lesson for the Future / Jean MichaudContributorsIndex