Frontier FieldworkThe centre may hold, but borders can fray. Frontier Fieldwork explores the work of social scientists, agriculturists, photographers, students, and missionaries who took to the field on Chinas southwestern border at a time when foreign political powers were contesting Chinas claims over its frontiers. In the early twentieth century, when the threat of imperialism loomed large in the Sino Tibetan borderlands, these fieldworkers undertook a nation