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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Beyond Borders
    sub title: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma
  name:
    name part: Knowledge Unlatched
    role:
      role term: funder.
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: US-NY
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (296 pages) 13 halftones, 3 maps.
  abstract: The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. Through a personal narrative approach, Beyond Borders is the first ethnography to focus on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants (composed of both Yunnanese Han and Muslims) who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma and resettled in Thailand, Taiwan, and China. Since the 1960s, Yunnanese Chinese migrants of Burma have dominated the transnational trade in opium, jade, and daily consumption goods. Wen-Chin Chang writes with deep knowledge of this trade's organization from the 1960s of mule-driven caravans to the use of modern transportation, and she reconstructs trading routes while examining embedded sociocultural meanings. These Yunnanese migrants' mobility attests to the prevalence of travel not only by the privileged but also by different kinds of people. Their narratives disclose individual life processes as well as networks of connections, modes of transportation, and differences between the experiences of men and women. Through traveling they have carried on the mobile livelihoods of their predecessors, expanding overland trade beyond its historical borderlands between Yunnan and upland Southeast Asia to journeys further afield by land, sea, and air.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Fieldwork, Names, Transliteration, and Currency -- Introduction -- Part I. Migration History -- 1. The Days in Burma: Zhang Dage -- 2. Entangled Love: Ae Maew -- 3. Pursuit of Ambition: Father and Son -- 4. Islamic Transnationalism: Yunnanese Muslims -- Part II. (Transnational) Trade -- 5. Venturing into "Barbarous" Regions: Yunnanese Caravan Traders -- 6. Transcending Gendered Geographies: Yunnanese Women Traders -- 7. Circulations of the Jade Trade: The Duans and the Pengs -- Epilogue: From Mules to Vehicles -- Glossary -- References -- Index
  target audience: specialized
  note: Wen-Chin Chang, Knowledge Unlatched.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Asia / China
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
  subject:
    topic: ANTHROPOLOGY
  subject:
    topic: ASIAN STUDIES
  subject:
    topic: caravan trading
  subject:
    topic: gendered trading lives
  subject:
    topic: chinese origin
  subject:
    topic: southwestern china
  subject:
    topic: chinese trade
  subject:
    topic: chinese political refugees
  subject:
    topic: chinese communism
  subject:
    topic: yunnanese refugees
  subject:
    topic: chinese migration
  classification: 305.895/10591
  identifier: 9780801454516
  identifier: 0801454514
  identifier: 9780801454509
  identifier: 0801454506
  identifier: o7ve789 cloudLibrary
  identifier: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: UPM
    record creation date: 250611
    record change date: 20260212201010.2
    record identifier: in00005687483
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng