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Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, edited by Stéphane Gros.Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Collection "Asian Borderlands".This new edited volume explores the intertwined questions of place-making, identity, and socio-political transformations that constitute convoluted historical trajectory of the Kham region and influenced its becoming as a regional formation within the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands.Frontier Tibet considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating within the People’s Republic of China a space that retains some characteristics of a historical frontier.The region of eastern Tibet called Kham, the focus of this volume, is a productive lens through which processes of place-making and frontier dynamics can be analysed. Using historical records and ethnography, the authors challenge purely externalist approaches to convey a sense of Kham’s own centrality and the agency of the actors involved. They contribute to a history from below that is relevant to the history of China and Tibet, and of comparative value for borderland studies.Kham is used in the volume as a heuristic to explore collective and individual trajectories at crucial historical conjunctures and to demonstrate that Kham is highly relevant for the study of Asian borderlands and our understanding of ‘Tibet’ in its relationship to ‘China’, both understood as contingent entities with shifting territorial imprints.The table of content and foreword are accessible on the book page, and the whole volume is in open-access format.The book page: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728713/frontier-tibetThe e-book page: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048544905/frontier-tibet  The Open Access page: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvt1sgw7To support Open Access, consider recommending the book to your librarian. &#160;