Frontier Fieldwork - Building a Nation in China's Borderlands, 1919–45

Frontier Fieldwork exposes the transformative power that early-twentieth-century fieldwork had in placing the Sino-Tibetan borderlands at the centre of China's nation-making process and race to modernity.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Soldiers and Scholars on the Frontier
2 Missionary Explorers in the Field: The West China Border Research Society, 1922-37
3 Frontier Fever: Reporting from the Field
4 Chinese Anthropologists at War: Frontier Reconstruction in the Field, 1937-45
5 Service in the Field: Wartime Students and the Frontier, 1940-45
Conclusion
Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

About the author

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

Summary

Frontier Fieldwork exposes the transformative power that early-twentieth-century fieldwork had in placing the Sino-Tibetan borderlands at the centre of China’s nation-making process and race to modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Andres Rodriguez
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2022
• EAN: 9780774867559
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-6755-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 160 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 496 g
• Illustrations: 16 b&w photos, 2 maps
• Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous