Conference Recordings

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A World Community of Neighbourhood in the Making: The Cosmopolitics of Mongolia’s ‘Third Neighbour’ Diplomacy

by Uradyn BULAG (University of Cambridge, UK)

Between East and West? Trade, Modernity and Representation on the Russian-Chinese Border

by Franck BILLÉ (University of Cambridge, UK)

The Transformation of Greater Tumen Transborder Space and the Mobility of Koreans

by Hyunjoon SHIN (Sungkonghoe University, South Korea)

Pilgrims of Development?: Trans-Himalayan Tibetan Migrants in the Borderlands of Belonging

by Chris VASANTKUMAR (Hamilton College, USA)

“Upstream” Air Travel: Mapping Transborder Passenger Flows in the Pearl River Delta

by Max HIRSH (Harvard University, USA)

Remote Cosmopolitans: Rethinking Trans-Himalayan Trade

by Martin SAXER (Asia Research Institute, Singapore)

Enclaves of Improvability: Sovereignty and Modernity in the Special Zones of the Burma-Lao Borderlands

by Pál NYÍRI (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands)

“China Is Paradise”: Migration and Diasporic Solidarities among Burmese Muslim Traders in the Yunnan-Burma/Myanmar Borderlands

by Renaud EGRETEAU (The University of Hong Kong)

Big Traders, Border Ghosts, and Sino-Indian Reconnections

by Tina HARRIS (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Trading on Change: Modernisation and Recent Dynamics of Shuttle Trade in the Borderlands of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang

by Henryk ALFF (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Frontier “Constructors”—At the Heart of the Nation?

by Tom CLIFF (Australian National University)

Neighboring in Anxiety along the China-Vietnam Border

by ZHANG Juan (Asia Research Institute, Singapore)

China’s Animal Neighbors

by Magnus FISKESJÖ (Cornell University, USA)

Promiscuous Capitalism Meets ‘Exotic’ Ethnicity: Intimate Aspirations Amongst Cross-Border Chinese Dai

by Chris LYTTLETON (Macquarie University, Australia)