Martin Gainsborough is Reader in Development Politics at the University of Bristol, UK.

• Acknowledgements. About the Contributors 1. Introduction – Borders, Globalisation and the State in Historical Context Martin Gainsborough 2. Unhealthy Air of the Mountains: Kinh and Ethnic Minority Rule on the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century Emmanuel Poisson 3. Post-Taiping Fallout: Nguyen-Qing Collaboration in the Pursuit of Bandits on the Border Bradley Davis 4. The Struggle to Control Land Grabbing: State Formation on the Central Highlands Frontier under the First Republic of Vietnam (1954-1963) Stan B-H Tan 5. ‘Community Development’ on the Sino-Burmese Border: Villagers, Oxfam and the Chinese State Miwa Hirono 6. The Politics of ‘Opening Up’: Female traders on the Borderlands of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) Kyoko Kusakabe 7. Dreaming Beyond Borders: The Thai/Lao Borderlands and the Mobility of the Marginal Holly High 8. Conclusion – Are the Mekong frontiers sites of exception? Andrew Walker. Index

'On the Borders of State Power has much to offer to scholars and students interested in the Greater Mekong Region.' -Dr Alexander Horstmann, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany; South East Asia Research, 18:3

Martin Gainsborough is Reader in Development Politics at the University of Bristol, UK.

• Acknowledgements. About the Contributors 1. Introduction – Borders, Globalisation and the State in Historical Context Martin Gainsborough 2. Unhealthy Air of the Mountains: Kinh and Ethnic Minority Rule on the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century Emmanuel Poisson 3. Post-Taiping Fallout: Nguyen-Qing Collaboration in the Pursuit of Bandits on the Border Bradley Davis 4. The Struggle to Control Land Grabbing: State Formation on the Central Highlands Frontier under the First Republic of Vietnam (1954-1963) Stan B-H Tan 5. ‘Community Development’ on the Sino-Burmese Border: Villagers, Oxfam and the Chinese State Miwa Hirono 6. The Politics of ‘Opening Up’: Female traders on the Borderlands of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) Kyoko Kusakabe 7. Dreaming Beyond Borders: The Thai/Lao Borderlands and the Mobility of the Marginal Holly High 8. Conclusion – Are the Mekong frontiers sites of exception? Andrew Walker. Index

'On the Borders of State Power has much to offer to scholars and students interested in the Greater Mekong Region.' -Dr Alexander Horstmann, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany; South East Asia Research, 18:3

Martin Gainsborough is Reader in Development Politics at the University of Bristol, UK.

• Acknowledgements. About the Contributors 1. Introduction – Borders, Globalisation and the State in Historical Context Martin Gainsborough 2. Unhealthy Air of the Mountains: Kinh and Ethnic Minority Rule on the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century Emmanuel Poisson 3. Post-Taiping Fallout: Nguyen-Qing Collaboration in the Pursuit of Bandits on the Border Bradley Davis 4. The Struggle to Control Land Grabbing: State Formation on the Central Highlands Frontier under the First Republic of Vietnam (1954-1963) Stan B-H Tan 5. ‘Community Development’ on the Sino-Burmese Border: Villagers, Oxfam and the Chinese State Miwa Hirono 6. The Politics of ‘Opening Up’: Female traders on the Borderlands of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) Kyoko Kusakabe 7. Dreaming Beyond Borders: The Thai/Lao Borderlands and the Mobility of the Marginal Holly High 8. Conclusion – Are the Mekong frontiers sites of exception? Andrew Walker. Index

'On the Borders of State Power has much to offer to scholars and students interested in the Greater Mekong Region.' -Dr Alexander Horstmann, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany; South East Asia Research, 18:3