This innovative book rethinks the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century history of coastal and riverine southwest Indochina, the water frontier of the title It repositions old state-centered histories to reveal the region as a single, multiethnic economic zone knit together by the itineraries of junk traders and by the activities of many одеэд southern Chinese, settlers, sojourners, and merchants, whose local significance it explores In so doing, it pioneers a new, nationally-neutral way of perceiving this dynamic region.  Windows2004 г Мягкая обложка, 216 стр ISBN 0742530833.