Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands

by Jean Michaud, Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin

Book Overview

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods about which governments often know little.

The product of wide-ranging research over many years, Frontier Livelihoods bridges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295741732
• ISBN13: 9780295741734
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher