Asian Borderlands
About the Book Series
This series presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia – the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania. Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences and humanities. The series explores the social, cultural, geographic, economic and historical dimensions of border-making by states, local communities and flows of goods, people and ideas. It considers territorial borderlands at various scales (national as well as supra- and sub-national) and in various forms (land borders, maritime borders) but also presents research on social borderlands resulting from border-making that may not be territorially fixed, for example linguistic or diasporic communities.
Chinese Borderlands in Transition: Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Junmin Liu, Fangyi Cheng
March 18, 2026
Chinese Borderlands in Transition: Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation offers a compelling exploration of borderlands as dynamic cultural spaces. Through a collection of thought-provoking essays, this edited volume examines the representations, negotiations, practices, and experiences that ...
Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerald Roche, Gwendolyn Hyslop
December 01, 2025
Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia examines the complex interactions between state, ethnic, and linguistic borders in the Himalayas. These case studies from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal show how people in the Himalayas talk borders into existence...
Borderland Anxieties: Shifting Understandings of Gender, Place and Identity at the India-Burma Border
1st Edition
By Matthew Wilkinson
December 01, 2025
Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. In the wake of Nagaland’s conflict, liberalization and an ‘opening up’ of the state to new connections and ...
Borderland City in New India: Frontier to Gateway
1st Edition
By Duncan McDuie-Ra
December 01, 2025
While India has been a popular subject of scholarly analysis in the past decade, the majority of that attention has been focused on its major cities. This volume instead explores contemporary urban life in a smaller city located in India's Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change, showing ...
Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China
1st Edition
By Alessandro Rippa
December 01, 2025
Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart ...
Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Reece Jones, Md. Azmeary Ferdoush
December 01, 2025
Migration and borders are at the center of political debates in South Asia and around the world as more people migrate in search of safety and opportunity. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by telling the stories of a poor ...
Contingent Loyalties: State Agents in the Yunnan Borderlands (1856-1911)
1st Edition
By Diana Zhidan Duan
December 01, 2025
From the mid-nineteenth-century Hui rebellions, which challenged centralised state control, to the early-twentieth-century revolutions, which led to Yunnan’s decades-long independence, local actors shaped the history of Yunnan through their extensive cross-border networks and contradictory roles in...
Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness
1st Edition
By Simon Rowedder
December 01, 2025
Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its ...
Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, Steven Denney
December 01, 2025
Since the 1990s, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensified cooperation, competition, and intrigue. These changes have prompted a significant volume of critical scholarship and media commentary across multiple languages and disciplines. ...
Development Zones in Asian Borderlands
1st Edition
Edited
By Mona Chettri, Michael Eilenberg
December 01, 2025
Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands...
Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing Democracy
1st Edition
By Mona Chettri
December 01, 2025
This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal. Grounded in historical and ethnographic ...
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: Histories of Networking and Border Crossing
1st Edition
Edited
By Gunnel Cederlöf, Willem van Schendel
December 01, 2025
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces traces movements and connections in a region known for its formidable obstacles to mobility. Eight original essays and a conceptual introduction engage with questions of networks and interconnection between people across a bordered landscape. Mobility ...