Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China’s Contemporary Borderlands

Abstract

This book takes an audacious all-encompassing approach to examine the entirety of Chinese borderlands as a research topic. Investigating China’s borderlands from a landscape architect’s interdisciplinary focus, this book brings to bear an original combination of archival research, fieldwork, cartography, and landscape analysis, revealing to the academic and lay reader alike fresh perspectives on these little understood areas that stand at the vanguard of global urbanization while still haunted by their tangled legacy of socio-ecological systems, diverse traditions of territorial governance, and convoluted histories of internal and international armed conflicts. This book is visually sumptuous, including approximately 28 archival materials, 22 photographs, and 64 original drawings and maps.