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Contents 7
Contributors 9
1. A Slightly Complicated Door: The Ethnography and Conceptualisation of North Asian Borders 13
Doors and the (unsuspected) relations between office colleagues, cats, and gulls 15
North Asian borders: where empires meet 17
How (slightly) different a border is from a door: overview of the volume's content 19
The fuzzy materiality of the border 20
Material and immaterial components in border assemblages 22
Borders and regimes of openness 23
Subverting the border 26
2. On Ideas of the Border in the Russian and Chinese Social Imaginaries 31
3. Rethinking Borders in Empire and Nation at the Foot of the Willow Palisade 47
Prologue: stony wars at the foot of the willow palisade 47
Rethinking imperial and national borders 50
Inter-Mongolian borders 54
Breaking down provincial borders 57
Inter-ethnic border or international border? 59
Gehe: inter-ethnic psychological barrier 61
Concluding remarks: toward a triangular conceptualisation of border 64
4. Concepts of “Russia” and their Relation to the Border with China 69
Changing ideas of Russia as a Eurasian country 71
Russia as a "border civilisation" 74
Critique of Neo-Eurasianism 75
The salience of civilisational perspectives for the Russia-China border 76
Conclusion 82
5. Chinese Migrants and Anti Chinese Sentiments in Russian Society 85
The "Yellow Peril" at the turn of the twentieth century: a Russian variant of a global syndrome 87
Contemporary Russia: the threat of "Chinese expansion" 94
From "Yellow Peril" to "China threat": from "enemy" to "opponent" 99
6. The Case of the Amur as a Cross-Border Zone of Illegality 103
Enforcement of property rights to natural resources and informal practices 104
Characteristics of the empirical basis 107
Formal regulations and legal enforcement 109
Informal practices in fishing activities 113
Social enforcement 120
Conclusion 124
7. Prostitution and the Transformation of the Chinese Trading Town of Ereen 125
The context 127
Methodology 129
Development of Ereen 131
Appropriation of the city by Mongols 138
The taxi drivers 141
Of their own free will? 144
The prostitution organisation 145
Daily life in an Ereen brothel 147
Conclusion 149
8. Ritual, Memory and the Buriad Diaspora Notion of Home 152
The "homeland" lexicon in the Mongolian language 156
Techniques of creating homeland in exile 159
Through decades and lines of separation: practice of legal, illegal and imagined border crossing 163
Movement across the border as movement between homelands 173
Conclusion 177
9. Politicisation of Quasi-Indigenousness on the Russo-Chinese Frontier 180
Quasi-indigenousnes in Inner Asia in the twentieth century 183
The rhetoric of the black legend: the Soviet border as ritual 188
Practice of inclusion: the "silent enemy" and the group intentionally created for prosecution 192
The black legend trapped in post-Soviet memory 194
10. People of the Border: The Destiny of the Shenehen Buryats 198
11. The Persistence of the Nation-State at the Chinese-Kazakh Border 214
Historical and theoretical considerations 215
Ethnography 217
Episode 1 217
Episode 2 218
Episode 3 219
Discussion 219
Conclusion 224
12. Neighbours and their Ruins: Remembering Foreign Presences in Mongolia 226
A brief history of Mardai 230
Memories of Mardai - a forbidden island of modernity 235
Memories of Mardai - "it has become like Chechnya" 240
The suspicious neighbour 243
Chinese ghosts in Mongolia 245
Conclusion 248
Appendix 1: Border-Crossing Infrastructure: The Case of the Russian-Mongolian Border 250
Appendix 2: Maps 262
Bibliography of Works Cited 266
Index 305
This book does not end here... 333