Grant Evans, Christopher Hutton, and Kuah Khun Eng (eds.), Where China Meets Southeast Asia, Social and Cultural Changes in the Border Regions

The approach taken in this volume to the complex ongoing processes of change in the border regions where “China meets Southeast Asia” is definitely from the perspective of the social sciences, represented here by anthropology, sociology, linguistics, history, and ethnography. The result of these research projects conducted on both sides of the border separating China from Laos, Burma (Myanmar), and Vietnam, is to provide a survey of these often overlooked areas, which, as the title of the boo..