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Beginning in the eighteenth century, this course traces the complex transition from empire to nation-state along the Sino-Tibetan frontier, touching upon a number of important issues such as imperial policies of incorporation, resistance, and the rise of modernity. We will explore varied methodological approaches to a wide range of primary sources¿Tibetan histories, Sufi hagiographies, legal cases, short stories¿and investigate how the frontier¿s merchants, herders, and farmers experienced the enormous social and political changes of the last three centuries. The course fulfills the departmental Sources and Methods requirement.