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.
發表於2024-12-26
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圖書標籤: 移民 人類學 東南亞 緬甸 民族誌 緬甸華人 社會學 社會史
藉助口述以及很多的小故事,構建瞭overland Yunnanese Chinese在跨境貿易中,顛沛流離的人生及錯綜複雜的心境。英文很簡單,行文很流暢,故事也很好讀,提齣的幾個點還是很有趣的:1)藉用Anna Tsing的Friction的概念來解釋這些離散雲南華人的境遇,p. 76, "different statuses, different ethnicities, different societies" 所組成 "frictions across differences"2)藉用楊美惠popular realm的概念,提齣「跨境民間」的說法(p. 174);3)和Saba Mahmmod的觀點不同,雲南女性的agency體現在母性與保存傢的完整性;4)由邊緣到中心的改變。。。
評分研究緬泰交界地區雲南人的人類學著作,訪談超多,有點審美疲勞。不過因為我到過其中一些提到的地方,也跟當地雲南人有交流,讀起來還是很興奮。這些雲南人的人生是真正的血色浪漫,我也想過這樣的生活。(五星包含偏好加分,應該是四星)
評分藉助口述以及很多的小故事,構建瞭overland Yunnanese Chinese在跨境貿易中,顛沛流離的人生及錯綜複雜的心境。英文很簡單,行文很流暢,故事也很好讀,提齣的幾個點還是很有趣的:1)藉用Anna Tsing的Friction的概念來解釋這些離散雲南華人的境遇,p. 76, "different statuses, different ethnicities, different societies" 所組成 "frictions across differences"2)藉用楊美惠popular realm的概念,提齣「跨境民間」的說法(p. 174);3)和Saba Mahmmod的觀點不同,雲南女性的agency體現在母性與保存傢的完整性;4)由邊緣到中心的改變。。。
評分研究緬泰交界地區雲南人的人類學著作,訪談超多,有點審美疲勞。不過因為我到過其中一些提到的地方,也跟當地雲南人有交流,讀起來還是很興奮。這些雲南人的人生是真正的血色浪漫,我也想過這樣的生活。(五星包含偏好加分,應該是四星)
評分研究緬泰交界地區雲南人的人類學著作,訪談超多,有點審美疲勞。不過因為我到過其中一些提到的地方,也跟當地雲南人有交流,讀起來還是很興奮。這些雲南人的人生是真正的血色浪漫,我也想過這樣的生活。(五星包含偏好加分,應該是四星)
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