Where China meets Southeast Asia : social & cultural change in the border regions / edited by Grant Evans, Chris Hutton, Kuah Khun Eng.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The disappearing frontier? / the editors -- Where nothing is as it seems : between Southeast China and mainland Southeast Asia in the "post-socialist" era / Peter Hinton -- The Southern Chinese borders in history / Geoff Wade -- Ecology without borders / Su Yongge -- Negotiating central, provincial, and county policies : border trading in South China / Kuah Khun Eng -- The Hmong of the Southeast Asia massif : their recent history of migration / Jean Michaud and Christian Culas -- Regional trade in Northwestern Laos : an initial assessment of the economic quadrangle / Andrew Walker -- Lue across borders : pilgrimage and the Muang Sing reliquary in Northern Laos / Paul T. Cohen -- Transformation of Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, PRC / Grant Evans -- The hell of good intentions : some preliminary thoughts on opium in the political ecology of the trade in girls and women / David A. Feingold -- Cross-border mobility and social networks : Akha caravan traders / Mika Toyota -- Cross-border links between Muslims in Yunnan and Northern Thailand : identity and economic networks / Jean Berlie -- Trade activities of the Hoa along the Sino-Vietnamese border / Chau Thi Hai -- Cross-border categories : ethnic Chinese and the Sino-Vietnamese border at Mong Cai / Christopher Hutton -- Regional development and cross-border cultural linkage : the case of a Vietnamese community in Guangxi, China / Cheung Siu-woo -- Women and social change along the Vietnam-Guangxi border / Xie Guangmao.