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...Benjamin D. Hopkins Abstract From the invention of imperial authority along the North-West Frontier of British India, subjects were divided between the “civilized” inhabitants populating the cultivated plains and the “wild tribes” living in the hills. The problem of governing this latter group...

...Anne-Sophie Pratte Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation . By Nianshen Song . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 324 pp. ISBN: 9781316626290 (paper). Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border . By Sören Urbansky...

...Hosung Shim 2. For example, see David Sneath, The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Transforming Inner Mongolia: Commerce, Migration, and Colonization on the Qing Frontier...

... to a geographer's take on the history of the “frontier” in Mae Sot, a transit hub for the moving of goods and people since the precolonial era. Today, this frontier is implicated in Burmese and Thai states’ struggles over control of natural resources, trade, and transport routes. The author argues that contemporary...

... of Hawaii Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Thai Frontier with Burma. Edited by CHARLES F. KEYES. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1979- ix, 278 pp. References, Notes on Contributors, Index, Photographs. $19-50. A curious tension of ethnography is that its practitioners...

...Ruth W. Dunnell The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China . By Thomas J. Barfield . Cambridge, Mass., and Oxford, England : Basil Blackwell Inc. , 1989 . xiii , 325 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 126 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Eva-Maria Stolberg Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier . By S. C. M. Paine . Armonk, New York and London : M. E. Sharpe , 1996 . 417 pp. $78.95 (cloth); $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 514 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Stanley E. Brush The North-West Frontier of West Pakistan: A Study in Regional Geography . By David Dichter , with the collaboration of Nathan S. Popkin. Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1967 . xii, 231 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Tables, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $10.10. Copyright ©...

...Jeffrey E. Key An “Agreed” Frontier: Ladakh and India's Northernmost Borders, 1846–1947 . By Parshotam Mehra . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . xii, 248 pp. $23.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1305 fragment...

...Sally Ann Ness Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual, Philippines . By José S. Buenconsejo . New York : Routledge , 2002 . xix , 424 pp. $100.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W...

...Robert Barnett On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier . By Åshild Kolås and Monika P. Thowsen . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2005 . 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S...

...Loretta E. Kim Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border . By Sören Urbansky . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2020 . xvi , 370 pp. ISBN: 9780691181684 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Sören Urbansky...

...John Latham-Sprinkle Mongol Caucasia: Invasions, Conquest, and Government of a Frontier Region in Thirteenth-Century Eurasia (1204–1295) . By Lorenzo Pubblici , translated by Andrew Smaldone . Leiden : Brill , 2022 . xvi, 265 pp. ISBN: 9789004503526 (cloth). Copyright ©...

...Matthew Lowenstein Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870–1919 . By Ghassan Moazzin . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . xviii, 352 pp. ISBN: 9781316517031 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 In 1889...

...Yudru Tsomu Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China's Borderlands, 1919–45 . By Andres Rodriguez . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2022 . xii, 221 pp. ISBN: 9780774867573 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 The concepts of “frontier...

...Wayne Wilcox Aspects of the Frontier Crimes Regulation in Pakistan . By Willard Berry . Duke University : Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia, 1966 . (Monograph and Occasional Papers Series, Number Three.) x, 122 pp. Table of Cases, Bibliography. $2.00. Copyright ©...

...J. L. Nichols A Sino-Soviet Cultural Frontier: The Ili Kazakh Autonomous Chou . By George Moseley . Harvard University : East Asian Research Center , 1967 . viii, 163 pp. Index, Notes, List of Harvard Asian Monographs Map. n. p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968...

...William S. Metz Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 North-West Frontier: People and Events, 1839–1947 . By Arthur Swinson . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1967 . 354 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index. $7.95. 908 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Kent C. Smith The Consolidation of the South China Frontier . By George V. H. Moseley , III. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1973 . x, 192 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $10. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS 701 was terrifying...

...Lawrence Ziring Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 North West Frontier Province Legislature and Freedom Struggle, 1932–47 . By Amit Kumar Gupta . New Delhi : Indian Council of Historical Research , 1976 . xv, 239 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 30.00...