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Frontier Fieldwork

Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands, 1919–45

by (author) Andres Rodriguez

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2022
Subjects
Asian Studies, China, Cultural

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    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.

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Contributor Notes

Andres Rodriguez is a lecturer in modern Chinese history at the University of Sydney, Australia.