Frontier Tibet

Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include >A History of Bangladesh> (2020), >Embedding Agricultural Commodities> (2017, ed.), >The Camera as Witness> (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel. >La Part Manquante> (2012), and he recently guest-edited two special issues of relevance to Southwest China (‘Worlds in the making’, Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, no. 23) and Eastern Tibet (‘Frontier Tibet’, Cross-Currents, no. 19).

"Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands is certain to be a captivating read for scholars of Kham history. Those who are interested in Amdo as well as other Tibetan peripheries are also likely to be inspired by the various modes of expansion and bottom-up approaches. I would further recommend the theoretical pieces in the volume for inclusion in any syllabus on frontier studies. Frontier Tibet is positioned to become a model for the field, and I look forward to seeing what this scholarly community produces in the future."- Xiaobai Hu, Nanjing University, Waxing Moon: Journal of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Vol. 1 (2021) "This collection of essays strikes me for its "thickness" in terms of its comprehensive content, heuristic novelty, longitudinal lens (mostly nineteenth to twenty-first century), and interdisciplinary cross-fertilization (mostly between history and anthropology). Largely for that reason, I see this volume as both an encyclopedic handbook and an original monograph on Kham and Sino-Tibetan borderlands, or even as a critical scholarly guidebook for borderlands studies writ large."- Tenzin Jinba, National University of Singapore, The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 79 Issue 4 (2020) "Stéphane Gros must be congratulated on editing this volume. Frontier Tibet is a unique survey of borderland-oriented research in the context of Sino-Tibetan (or, if one wishes, "Sino-Kham") studies, a rapidly evolving field of scholarship, and the book is an indispensable basis for further research."- Per Kværne, Asian Ethnology 79/2 (2020)

• Foreword and Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Chronology of Events, PART I: BORDERS INSIDE OUT, PART II: MODES OF EXPANSION AND FORMS OF CONTROL, PART III: STRATEGIC BELONGINGS, AFTERWORD, Index