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 10, 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 ...
Borderland City in New India: Frontier to Gateway
1st Edition
By Duncan McDuie-Ra
January 10, 2026
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
January 10, 2026
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 ...
The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Saxer, J. Zhang
January 10, 2026
For the nations on its borders, the rapid rise of China represents an opportunity-but it also brings worry, especially in areas that have long been disputed territories of contact and exchange. This book gathers contributors from a range of disciplines to look at how people in those areas are ...
The Maritime Silk Road: Global Connectivities, Regional Nodes, Localities
1st Edition
Edited
By Franck Billé, Sanjyot Mehendale, James Lankton
January 10, 2026
The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which has emerged in the last two decades in the form of archaeological findings,...
Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Reece Jones, Md. Azmeary Ferdoush
January 09, 2026
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
January 09, 2026
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...
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: Histories of Networking and Border Crossing
1st Edition
Edited
By Gunnel Cederlöf, Willem van Schendel
January 09, 2026
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 ...
Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
1st Edition
Edited
By Stéphane Gros
January 09, 2026
Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of ...
Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland: Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter
1st Edition
By Arik Moran
January 09, 2026
Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput led-kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices ...
The Displacement of Borders among Russian Koreans in Northeast Asia
1st Edition
By Hyun-Gwi Park
January 09, 2026
Since the nineteenth century, ethnic Koreans have represented a small yet significant portion of the population of the Russian Far East, but until now, the phenomenon has been largely understudied. Based on extensive historical and ethnographic research, this is the first book in English to chart ...
Trans-Himalayan Borderlands: Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Michaud, Dan Smyer Yu
January 09, 2026
The societies in the Himalayan borderlands have undergone wide-ranging transformations, as the territorial reconfiguration of modern nation-states since the mid-twentieth century and the presently increasing trans-Himalayan movements of people, goods and capital, reshape the livelihoods of ...