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The research programme “Territories, Communities and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Kham Borderlands (China)” has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration, European Research Council (ERC), Support for frontier research (SP2-Ideas), Starting grant n° 283870.

It is hosted by the Centre d'études Himalayennes, at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

For further information and any questions, please contact the Principal Investigator, Stéphane Gros

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Special issues

Special issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-19

Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham

Introduction to "Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham"
Stéphane Gros, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

"To Control Tibet, First Pacify Kham": Trade Routes and "Official Routes" (Guandao) in Easternmost Kham
Patrick Booz, Pennsylvania State University

Construction Work and Wages at the Dergé Printing House in the Eighteenth Century
Rémi Chaix, École Pratique des Hautes Études

Guozhuang Trading Houses and Tibetan Middlemen in Dartsedo, the "Shanghai of Tibet"
Yudru Tsomu, Sichuan University

Victorianizing Guangxu: Arresting Flows, Minting Coins, and Exerting Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Kham
Scott Relyea, Appalachian State University

Tricks of the Trade: Debt and Imposed Sovereignty in Southernmost Kham in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Stéphane Gros, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Memory Politics at Work in a Gyalrong Revolt in the Early Twentieth Century
Jinba Tenzin, National University of Singapore

Afterword: Why Kham? Why Borderlands? Coordinating New Research Programs for Asia
C. Patterson Giersch, Wellesley College

Special issue of the Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie

Des mondes en devenir. Interethnicité et production de la différence en Chine du Sud-Ouest / Worlds in the making. Interethnicity and the processes of generating difference in Southwestern China

À nos lecteurs / To Our Readers

INTRODUCTION – Stéphane Gros (CNRS-CEH)

CONTRIBUTIONS
David Atwill (Pennsylvania State University) : A Tibetan by any other name: The case of Tibetan muslims and ambiguous ethno-religious identities.
Stéphane Gros (CNRS-CEH) : Devenirs identitaires dans les confins sino-tibétains : contextes et transformations.
Edwin Schmitt (CUHK) : The influence of inter-ethnic relations on historical shifts in value: Agricultural practice and exchange among the Ersu and Han of Sichuan.
Sylvie Beaud (CNRS-LESC) : Discours sur les origines du Théâtre de Guan Suo des Han de Yangzong (Yunnan).
Lara Maconi (CNRS-CEH) : Dans les yeux des artistes : visions chinoises de Muli et du Kham pendant la période républicaine.
Vanessa Frangville (Victoria University of Wellington) : Négocier les identités ethniques dans « Le Projet sur le cinéma non-han » : le cas du micro-film de Yang Rui sur les Wa du Yunnan.

NOTES DE RECHERCHES/RESEARCH REPORTS
Zhang Yuan et Tang Yun (Xinan minzu daxue西南民族大学): Crossing borders and paradigms: The intermediaries and the reformation of anthropology.
Patrick Booz (CNRS-CEH) : In and out of borders: The beifu tea porters encounter Tibet.
Valérie Vandenabeele (Université Paris Ouest) : Le respect de l’environnement naturel des Tibétains du Parc national de Pudacuo : attribut identitaire ou atout touristique ?
Tami Blumenfield (Furman University) : Resilience in mountainous Southwest China: Adopting a socio-ecological approach to community change.

COMPTES RENDUS/BOOK REVIEWS
Erik Mueggler, 2011, The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet. Berkeley: University of California Press. –Par Charles McKhann

Tenzin Jinba, 2014. In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border. Seattle: University of Washington Press. – Par Pascale-Marie Milan