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The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade, and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, China, Thailand and Burma

Alexandra Denes
- 01 Oct 2000 - 
- Vol. 15, Iss: 2, pp 301
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This article is published in Sojourn.The article was published on 2000-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: China & Legend.

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Frontier constellations: agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how processes of frontier colonization through agricultural expansion have been a recurrent product of Indonesian development and security policies since the early 1960s, and argue that frontier development accelerates and intensifies when national discourses of security and sovereignty and state-led agrarian expansion intersect along national borders.
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Historical dictionary of the peoples of the Southeast Asian massif

Jean Michaud
TL;DR: In this article, a list of illustrators is presented, along with an introduction, editor's foreword, preface, acknowledgments, and reader's note for each illustrator.
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Enclaves of improvement: Sovereignty and developmentalism in the special zones of the China-Lao borderlands

TL;DR: The authors examines the transformation of zones of political and criminal resistance into zones of economic development from a historical perspective of changing practices of sovereignty and shifting understandings of development in the highlands of mainland Southeast Asia.
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Negotiating Remote Borderland Access: Small-Scale Trade on the Vietnam–China Border

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the cross-border trading networks and practices of highland residents in north-west Vietnam and reveal how such individuals negotiate the political reality of an international border in highly pragmatic ways as they augment their livelihoods by trading commodities with inhabitants in south-west China.
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Borderland livelihood strategies: The socio-economic significance of ethnicity in cross-border labour migration, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored cross-border ethnic relations as an important socio-economic strat- egy for the borderland Iban population in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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The condition of postmodernity

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Frontier constellations: agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how processes of frontier colonization through agricultural expansion have been a recurrent product of Indonesian development and security policies since the early 1960s, and argue that frontier development accelerates and intensifies when national discourses of security and sovereignty and state-led agrarian expansion intersect along national borders.
Book

Historical dictionary of the peoples of the Southeast Asian massif

Jean Michaud
TL;DR: In this article, a list of illustrators is presented, along with an introduction, editor's foreword, preface, acknowledgments, and reader's note for each illustrator.
Journal ArticleDOI

Enclaves of improvement: Sovereignty and developmentalism in the special zones of the China-Lao borderlands

TL;DR: The authors examines the transformation of zones of political and criminal resistance into zones of economic development from a historical perspective of changing practices of sovereignty and shifting understandings of development in the highlands of mainland Southeast Asia.
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Negotiating Remote Borderland Access: Small-Scale Trade on the Vietnam–China Border

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the cross-border trading networks and practices of highland residents in north-west Vietnam and reveal how such individuals negotiate the political reality of an international border in highly pragmatic ways as they augment their livelihoods by trading commodities with inhabitants in south-west China.