1.A Slightly Complicated Door: The Ethnography and Conceptualisation of North Asian Borders
Grégory Delaplace
2.On Ideas of the Border in the Russian and 19 Chinese Social Imaginaries
Franck Billé
3.Rethinking Borders in Empire and Nation at the Foot of the Willow Palisade
Uradyn E. Bulag
4.Concepts of “Russia” and their Relation to the Border with China
Caroline Humphrey
5.Chinese Migrants and Anti-Chinese Sentiments in Russian Society
Viktor Dyatlov
6.The Case of the Amur as a Cross-Border Zone of Illegality
Natalia Ryzhova
7.Prostitution and the Transformation of the Chinese Trading Town of Ereen
Gaëlle Lacaze
8.Ritual, Memory and the Buriad Diaspora Notion of Home
Sayana Namsaraeva
9.Politicisation of Quasi-Indigenousness on the Russo-Chinese Frontier
Ivan Peshkov
10.People of the Border: The Destiny of the Shenehen Buryats
Marina Baldano
11.The Persistence of the Nation-State at the Chinese-Kazakh Border
Ross Anthony
12.Neighbours and their Ruins: Remembering Foreign Presences in Mongolia
Grégory Delaplace
Appendix 1: Border-Crossing Infrastructure: The Case of the Russian-Mongolian Border
Valentin Batomunkuev