Frontier Fieldwork
Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands, 1919–45
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2022
- Category
- Asian Studies, China, Cultural
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774867580
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $37.95
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Description
The centre may hold, but borders can fray. Frontier Fieldwork explores the work of social scientists, agriculturists, photographers, and missionaries who took to the field in China’s southwest at a time when foreign political powers were contesting China’s claims over its frontiers. In the early twentieth century, when the threat of imperialism loomed large in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, these fieldworkers undertook a nation-building exercise to unite a disparate, multi-ethnic population. Andres Rodriguez exposes the transformative power of the fieldworkers’ efforts, which placed China’s margins at the centre of its nation-making process and race to modernity.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Andres Rodriguez is a lecturer in modern Chinese history at the University of Sydney, Australia.