| Series |
Contemporary Chinese studies
Contemporary Chinese studies. ^A767036
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| Contents |
Soldiers and Scholars on the Frontier -- Missionary Explorers in the Field: Th e West China Border Research Society, 1922–37 -- Frontier Fever: Reporting from the Field -- Chinese Anthropologists at War: Frontier Reconstruction in the Field, 1937-45 -- Service in the Field: Wartime Students and the Frontier, 1940-45. |
| Abstract |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Rodriguez, Andres, 1975- Frontier fieldwork. Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2022 0774867574 9780774867573 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780774867559 |
| ISBN | 0774867558 |
