Table of Contents
Map xii
Introduction 1
Part I Xinjiang-The New Frontier
1 'Uighurs Are Like Pandas' 13
2 The New Silk Road 25
3 Exiles 36
4 The Great Game Again 50
5 Return to Kashgar 58
6 Three Borders 65
7 Uighurstan 73
Part II Tibet-The Wild West
8 The Tibetan Borderlands 91
9 Lhasa 101
10 A Night at the Nangma 113
11 U-Tsang 122
12 High Plateau Drifter 131
13 The Precious Jewel of the Snows 141
14 Going Down 151
Part III Yunnan-Trouble in Paradise
15 Shiny Happy Minorities 161
16 Dailand 171
17 Down the Mekong 183
18 The Dai Diaspora 193
19 With the Wa 208
20 Women for Sale 226
Part Iv Dongbei-Pushing the Boundaries
21 The Pyongyang Express 241
22 The Third Korea 253
23 Spreading the Word 265
24 The Arctic Borderlands 278
25 Along the Amur 289
26 An Empire Expanding 301
Further Reading 309
Acknowledgments 311
Index 313