Soldiers and Scholars on the Frontier -- Missionary Explorers in the Field: The 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.
Summary:
"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.
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