Junmin Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of Macau.Fangyi Cheng is Professor of History in Boya (Liberal Arts) College at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

• Introduction Part I: Mobility of Cultural Borderlands in Southern China 1. Cultivating Gu Sorcery in the South 2. How Local Climate Descriptions Domesticated Borderland Areas in the Early Qing Period (1644-1722) 3. From “Barbarian Rat-eater” to “Chinese Rat-eater”: Barbarisation Narratives inside and outside China’s Southern Border Part II: Penetration of Socio-political Borderlands in Northern China 4. An Analysis of the Formation of the Altan Khan Style Tsogchins in Mayidari Juu Monastery 5. Imagining Sacred Geographies in Western China: Imagery of Divine Monks from the Ninth through the Tenth Centuries 6. Fortifying the Northern Border: Mutiny, Migration, and Militarization in 16th Century Datong Part III: Transformation of Traditional Borderlands in Modern China 7. Between Shanghai and Sikkim: The Influence of the North-China Herald on the S.S. Kuling Project and the Opening of Chongqing 8. Gazing at Taiwan and Hong Kong on A Diaspora Trail: Revisit Eileen Chang’s Bilingual Sinophone Writings A Return to The Frontier 9. Between Empire and Nation: Negotiating Colonial Heritage in China’s Borderland City, Dalian 10. Ethnic Restaurants and Yi Migrants’ Homemaking Practices in Shenzhen Conclusion: Chinese Borderlands and the Global Turn in Borderlands Scholarship

Junmin Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of Macau.Fangyi Cheng is Professor of History in Boya (Liberal Arts) College at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

• Introduction Part I: Mobility of Cultural Borderlands in Southern China 1. Cultivating Gu Sorcery in the South 2. How Local Climate Descriptions Domesticated Borderland Areas in the Early Qing Period (1644-1722) 3. From “Barbarian Rat-eater” to “Chinese Rat-eater”: Barbarisation Narratives inside and outside China’s Southern Border Part II: Penetration of Socio-political Borderlands in Northern China 4. An Analysis of the Formation of the Altan Khan Style Tsogchins in Mayidari Juu Monastery 5. Imagining Sacred Geographies in Western China: Imagery of Divine Monks from the Ninth through the Tenth Centuries 6. Fortifying the Northern Border: Mutiny, Migration, and Militarization in 16th Century Datong Part III: Transformation of Traditional Borderlands in Modern China 7. Between Shanghai and Sikkim: The Influence of the North-China Herald on the S.S. Kuling Project and the Opening of Chongqing 8. Gazing at Taiwan and Hong Kong on A Diaspora Trail: Revisit Eileen Chang’s Bilingual Sinophone Writings A Return to The Frontier 9. Between Empire and Nation: Negotiating Colonial Heritage in China’s Borderland City, Dalian 10. Ethnic Restaurants and Yi Migrants’ Homemaking Practices in Shenzhen Conclusion: Chinese Borderlands and the Global Turn in Borderlands Scholarship

Junmin Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of Macau.Fangyi Cheng is Professor of History in Boya (Liberal Arts) College at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

• Introduction Part I: Mobility of Cultural Borderlands in Southern China 1. Cultivating Gu Sorcery in the South 2. How Local Climate Descriptions Domesticated Borderland Areas in the Early Qing Period (1644-1722) 3. From “Barbarian Rat-eater” to “Chinese Rat-eater”: Barbarisation Narratives inside and outside China’s Southern Border Part II: Penetration of Socio-political Borderlands in Northern China 4. An Analysis of the Formation of the Altan Khan Style Tsogchins in Mayidari Juu Monastery 5. Imagining Sacred Geographies in Western China: Imagery of Divine Monks from the Ninth through the Tenth Centuries 6. Fortifying the Northern Border: Mutiny, Migration, and Militarization in 16th Century Datong Part III: Transformation of Traditional Borderlands in Modern China 7. Between Shanghai and Sikkim: The Influence of the North-China Herald on the S.S. Kuling Project and the Opening of Chongqing 8. Gazing at Taiwan and Hong Kong on A Diaspora Trail: Revisit Eileen Chang’s Bilingual Sinophone Writings A Return to The Frontier 9. Between Empire and Nation: Negotiating Colonial Heritage in China’s Borderland City, Dalian 10. Ethnic Restaurants and Yi Migrants’ Homemaking Practices in Shenzhen Conclusion: Chinese Borderlands and the Global Turn in Borderlands Scholarship