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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.



Table 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

Frontier Fieldwork Building a Nation in Chinas

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/2023
      ISBN13: 9780774867566, 978-0774867566
      ISBN10: 0774867566

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Table 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

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