Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands
Untold Stories of Overland Chinese Migrants During the Cold War
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2025
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-30254-9 (ISBN)
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-30254-9 (ISBN)
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Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang probes their political, economic, and sociocultural trajectories, including engagement in espionage, military operations, and underground trade.
Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands is an ethnography that explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants via the Sino-Burmese borderlands during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang probes their political, economic, and sociocultural trajectories, including their engagement in Taiwan’s espionage in Burma, military operations of the Communist Party of Burma, mule transport for the Burmese authorities, underground cross-border trade, and pursuit of a Chinese education. Through the lens of existential anthropology, Chang illustrates how these migrants’ lived experiences intersected with the volatile situation in the frontier areas where many ethnic groups and political entities co-existed. Although subjected to state and non-state violence, these individuals demonstrated their resilience, political liminality, economic adroitness, and skillfulness in networking as they moved across borders in search of a better life. In contrast to conventional historical narratives often focused on global politics and ideological confrontations, Chang’s examination of these migrants’ overlooked stories offers a compelling and nuanced Cold War history of the Sino-Burmese borderlands, where exclusion pushed people to seek out change and adversity was met with creative adaptation.
Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands is an ethnography that explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants via the Sino-Burmese borderlands during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang probes their political, economic, and sociocultural trajectories, including their engagement in Taiwan’s espionage in Burma, military operations of the Communist Party of Burma, mule transport for the Burmese authorities, underground cross-border trade, and pursuit of a Chinese education. Through the lens of existential anthropology, Chang illustrates how these migrants’ lived experiences intersected with the volatile situation in the frontier areas where many ethnic groups and political entities co-existed. Although subjected to state and non-state violence, these individuals demonstrated their resilience, political liminality, economic adroitness, and skillfulness in networking as they moved across borders in search of a better life. In contrast to conventional historical narratives often focused on global politics and ideological confrontations, Chang’s examination of these migrants’ overlooked stories offers a compelling and nuanced Cold War history of the Sino-Burmese borderlands, where exclusion pushed people to seek out change and adversity was met with creative adaptation.
Wen-Chin Chang is a Research Fellow at the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, RCHSS, at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Zusatzinfo | 23 color photos, 5 maps |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-30254-0 / 0674302540 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-30254-9 / 9780674302549 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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