Chan Yuk Wah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. She is the editor of The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora, also published by Routledge.

"A poetic and potent gentle critique of globalization discourse that rescue human agency and subjectivity from the etatization of the borderlands between Vietnam and China. Chan provides a thick description of daily life with ethnographic data from entrepreneurs, tourists, sex workers, and spouse-seekers infused with jokes, conservations, and the keen insights of a cultural anthropologist. Chan’s bottom-up analysis of life at the Vietnam-China borderland reveals how subjects on either side maneuver the vexing history—visceral and real—between Vietnam and China." - Dr. Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University"In this concise, powerful and richly documented study, highlighted with relevant literature references, Chan constantly challenges the general approach of Sino-Vietnamese relationships as conflicting and unbalanced."Caroline Grillot, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany)Asian Journal of Social Science 43 (2015) 844-846

• 1. Introduction 2. The Intriguing Vietnam-China Relationship and Border Encounters 3. Trade, Business and Borderland Cultural Economy 4. Chinese Tourists, Borderland Tourism and Joking Relationships 5. Smuggling, Gambling and Borderland Regulation 6. Sex Tourism, Gender Politics and Cross-border Marriage 7. Conclusion: Surfaces of Interaction and Inter-state Relations

Chan Yuk Wah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. She is the editor of The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora, also published by Routledge.

"A poetic and potent gentle critique of globalization discourse that rescue human agency and subjectivity from the etatization of the borderlands between Vietnam and China. Chan provides a thick description of daily life with ethnographic data from entrepreneurs, tourists, sex workers, and spouse-seekers infused with jokes, conservations, and the keen insights of a cultural anthropologist. Chan’s bottom-up analysis of life at the Vietnam-China borderland reveals how subjects on either side maneuver the vexing history—visceral and real—between Vietnam and China." - Dr. Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University"In this concise, powerful and richly documented study, highlighted with relevant literature references, Chan constantly challenges the general approach of Sino-Vietnamese relationships as conflicting and unbalanced."Caroline Grillot, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany)Asian Journal of Social Science 43 (2015) 844-846

• 1. Introduction 2. The Intriguing Vietnam-China Relationship and Border Encounters 3. Trade, Business and Borderland Cultural Economy 4. Chinese Tourists, Borderland Tourism and Joking Relationships 5. Smuggling, Gambling and Borderland Regulation 6. Sex Tourism, Gender Politics and Cross-border Marriage 7. Conclusion: Surfaces of Interaction and Inter-state Relations

Chan Yuk Wah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. She is the editor of The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora, also published by Routledge.

"A poetic and potent gentle critique of globalization discourse that rescue human agency and subjectivity from the etatization of the borderlands between Vietnam and China. Chan provides a thick description of daily life with ethnographic data from entrepreneurs, tourists, sex workers, and spouse-seekers infused with jokes, conservations, and the keen insights of a cultural anthropologist. Chan’s bottom-up analysis of life at the Vietnam-China borderland reveals how subjects on either side maneuver the vexing history—visceral and real—between Vietnam and China." - Dr. Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University"In this concise, powerful and richly documented study, highlighted with relevant literature references, Chan constantly challenges the general approach of Sino-Vietnamese relationships as conflicting and unbalanced."Caroline Grillot, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany)Asian Journal of Social Science 43 (2015) 844-846

• 1. Introduction 2. The Intriguing Vietnam-China Relationship and Border Encounters 3. Trade, Business and Borderland Cultural Economy 4. Chinese Tourists, Borderland Tourism and Joking Relationships 5. Smuggling, Gambling and Borderland Regulation 6. Sex Tourism, Gender Politics and Cross-border Marriage 7. Conclusion: Surfaces of Interaction and Inter-state Relations