Anthropological Study on Transformation of Ethnoscapes and Formation of Borderland Cultures

本项目考察中缅两国人口和产品流动对边境地区村镇人口特征和社会文化的影响。我认为人口特征是民族景观，社会转型是边界文化的形成。我在中缅边境地区瑞丽进行了文献和实地调研。以下是该项目的成果；(1)瑞丽作为边贸中心不断发展，边民跨越国界十分方便，形成了一种超越民族国家边界的民族景观。(2)这种民族景观吸引了克钦难民、罗兴亚难民、华侨华人等处于社会边界地区的人群。

This project investigates how the population and products flows between Myanmar and China transformed the population characteristic and social cultures in towns and villages of border area. I consider the population characteristic as ethnoscape and social transformation as a formation of border cultures. I conducted literature and field research in Ruili, a China-Myanmar border area. Following is the result of this project;(1) Since Ruili has been developing as a border trade center and people in border area can cross the national border easily, we can see an ethnoscape which transcend the nation-state borders. (2) This ethnoscape attracts those who are situated in a social border areas such as Kachin refugees, Rohingya refugees and overseas Chinese.