Yunnan-Burma-Bengal corridor geographies : protean edging of habitats and empires

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    • Smyer Yü, Dan
    • Dean, Karin

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Yunnan-Burma-Bengal corridor geographies : protean edging of habitats and empires

edited by Dan Smyer Yü and Karin Dean

Routledge, 2022

  • : pbk

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1) This book explores the historical corridor geography between Yunnan, Burma and Bengal. 2) It looks at the fascinating human-nonhuman nexus in the region. 3) This volume will be of interest to departments of South Asian and Chinese history and Border studies across the world.

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Perpendicular Geospatiality of Corridors and Borderlands: An Introduction PART I. CONCEPTUAL THOUGHTS 1. Framing Spaces between India and China 2. Environmental Edging of Empires, Chiefdoms and States: Corridors as Transregions 3. A Conceptualization of Tibetan-Myanmar Corridors PART II. HUMAN-NONHUMAN CORRIDORS AND COMMONS 4. Understanding Borderlands through Elephant Corridors in the Yunnan-Myanmar-Bengal Landscape 5. Rivers of Mobility: Multi-ethnic Societies and Ecological Commons in a Fluvial Asia 6. Borderlines, Livelihood and Ethnicity in the Yunnan-Myanmar Borderlands: A Rohingya Jade Trader's Narratives PART III. IMPERIAL FRONTIERS, ETHNOPOLITICS AND BORDERLAND LIVELIHOODS 7. Ethnonationalism in Northeast India: A Case Study of the Ban on Hindi Movies and Songs in Manipur 8. Constructing Native Chieftains as Imperial Frontier Institution: Endogamy and Dowry Land Exchange among the Shan-Dai Chieftains in Yunnan-Burma Borderland since the Thirteenth Century 9. Beyond Taste: The Flow of De'ang's Fermented Tea in Yunnan-Myanmar Borderlands 10. Leaving the Mountain: Wage Laborers and Gendered Yearnings in a Northwest Lao Border Town. Conclusion: Corridor Geographies

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