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 the traditional divide between studies of China and peninsular...
