Yuk Wah Chan is an anthropologist in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. She works with a wide range of scholars and her research interests cover borderland, migration, tourism, food, heritage, death, and identity.Brantly Womack is C.K. Yen Professor of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of Asymmetry and International Relationships (2016), China among Unequals (2010) and China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (2006).

• Introduction – Not merely a border: borderland governance, development and transborder relations in Asia 1. Borders, boundaries, horizons and Quemoy in an asymmetric world 2. Mobile North Korean women and their places in the Sino-North Korea borderland 3. The Thai-Burmese borderland: mobilities, regimes, actors and changing political contexts 4. Mongla and the borderland politics of Myanmar 5. "Trust facilitates business, but may also ruin it": the hazardous facets of Sino-Vietnamese border trade 6. A tale of two borderlands: material lucidity and deep play in the transborder tourism space in Hong Kong and Macao

Yuk Wah Chan is an anthropologist in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. She works with a wide range of scholars and her research interests cover borderland, migration, tourism, food, heritage, death, and identity.Brantly Womack is C.K. Yen Professor of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of Asymmetry and International Relationships (2016), China among Unequals (2010) and China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (2006).

• Introduction – Not merely a border: borderland governance, development and transborder relations in Asia 1. Borders, boundaries, horizons and Quemoy in an asymmetric world 2. Mobile North Korean women and their places in the Sino-North Korea borderland 3. The Thai-Burmese borderland: mobilities, regimes, actors and changing political contexts 4. Mongla and the borderland politics of Myanmar 5. "Trust facilitates business, but may also ruin it": the hazardous facets of Sino-Vietnamese border trade 6. A tale of two borderlands: material lucidity and deep play in the transborder tourism space in Hong Kong and Macao

Yuk Wah Chan is an anthropologist in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. She works with a wide range of scholars and her research interests cover borderland, migration, tourism, food, heritage, death, and identity.Brantly Womack is C.K. Yen Professor of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of Asymmetry and International Relationships (2016), China among Unequals (2010) and China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (2006).

• Introduction – Not merely a border: borderland governance, development and transborder relations in Asia 1. Borders, boundaries, horizons and Quemoy in an asymmetric world 2. Mobile North Korean women and their places in the Sino-North Korea borderland 3. The Thai-Burmese borderland: mobilities, regimes, actors and changing political contexts 4. Mongla and the borderland politics of Myanmar 5. "Trust facilitates business, but may also ruin it": the hazardous facets of Sino-Vietnamese border trade 6. A tale of two borderlands: material lucidity and deep play in the transborder tourism space in Hong Kong and Macao