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These reports from the field, from the borderlands between China and mainland South East Asia, provide readers with a survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders there in the early 1990s, following radical changes in the economic policies of the states involved, in particular China, Vietnam and Laos. Most of the essays provide a close-up survey of a particular area and problem, but cumulatively they provide a general picture of social and cultural change in the border regions where China meets South East Asia.