Sayana Namsaraeva is a Research Associate at the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge. She obtained her PhD in 2004 in Qing Dynasty History from Saint Petersburg State University. Her research interests include the anthropology of the Russia-China-Mongolia border and ethnic groups divided by the border – Buryats, in particular; historical and present day border trade in North Asia, as well as broader issues of Mongolian, Siberian, and Chinese studies. ORCiD: www.orcid.org/0000-0003-4670-9448

2016. Mongolians: transformations of nomadic societies and historical practices [Монгольские народы исторический опыт трансформации кочевых сообществ Азии], co-authored with Boris Bazarov, Leonid Kuras & Bair Nanzatov, et al. Irkutsk: Ottisk.

2014. Frontier Urbanism in Russia: Imperial and Post imperial practices [Приграничный урбанизм: имперская и постимперская практики], co-edited with Boris Bazarov & Tsymzhit Vanchikova. Ulan-Ude: Buryat State University. Published in Russian

2009. Review on Siberian studies at Max Planck Institute for Social anthropology [马克斯普朗克社会人类学 研究所西伯利亚研究 回顾 ](co-edited with Nima) Ethnic Publishing House: Beijing [民族出版社], pp. 120-155. Published in Chinese

Special Issues

2014. China-Russia North Asian Border History. Special Issue of Inner Asia 16 (co-edited with Caroline Humphrey).
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22105018-12340001

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2016. 中俄边境城市满洲里的女性边贸人 [Gender and Trade in Russia-China border city Manzhouli: ], 俄 罗 斯 研 究 [Russian Studies], Vol. 3 (June), pp. 94- 121
http://202.120.85.33/Jweb_elsyj/CN/abstract/abstract446.shtml

2015. Loyalties at the Russia-China-Mongolia border: Life story of Urjin Garmaev - Russian officer of Buryat-Mongol origin, who became a High command of the Manchukuo Army, Chapter 44 [ブリヤート人満洲国将軍 ウルジン・ガルマエフ──ロシア・中国・モンゴル国境における忠誠の問題], in Sixty Chapters for Understanding Inner Mongolia [内モンゴルを知るための60章], edited by Burensain Borjigin & Bulag Uradiin. Tokio: Akashi Shoten Publishing Co, p. 221-226. Published in Japanese.
http://www.akashi.co.jp/book/b208189.html

2015. Buryat migrations and separations in the twentieth century, Chapter 52 [ブリヤート人の移動と分断──ディアスポラの軌跡] in Sixty Chapters for Understanding Inner Mongolia [内モンゴルを知るための60章], edited by Burensain Borjigin & Bulag Uradiin. Tokio: Akashi Shoten Publishing Co, pp. 338-343. Published in Japanese.
http://www.akashi.co.jp/book/b208189.html

2014. Detachable-Attachable Persons and Objects in Russia-China borderland, editorial Introduction” to “China-Russia North Asian Border History” in Inner Asia 16 (2014): 1-6.

2014. Border Language: Chinese Pidgin Russian with a Mongolian ‘Accent’. Inner Asia 16 (2014): 116-138.
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22105018-12340006

2014. Military and Trade Diasporas in Kyachta and Maimaicheng [Военные и торговые диаспоры кяхтинского Маймачена] in Imperial Russia’s Trade Zone in Kyachta-Maimaicheng [Кяхта – Маймачен. Прообразы свободных экономических зон в Российской империи: история, современность, перспективы], edited by Bazarov B. & Vanchikova Ts. Ulan-Ude: Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, pp.73-106

2014. Zabaikal’sk and Kyachta: historical and present day trade hubs between China and Russia [Забайкальск и Кяхта: исторические и современные параллели в приграничных торговых анклавах в транспортных коридорах между Россией и Китаем] in Frontier Urbanism in Russia: Imperial and Post imperial practices [Приграничный урбанизм: имперская и постимперская практики], edited by Namsaraeva Sayana, Boris Bazarov & Tsymzhit Vanchikova. Ulan-Ude: Buryat State University, pp. 110-125. Published in Russian

2013. Migrations in Inner Asia: Diasporas of the Contact zone Kiachta-Maimacheng [Миграции во Внутренней Азии цинского периода: диаспоры “контактной зоны” Кяхта – Маймачен]. Buryat State University Bulletin: Humanities of Inner Asia [Вестник Бурятского государственного университета: гуманитарные исследования Внутренней Азии], 1(2013): 21- 45. Published in Russian
http://www.bsu.ru/content/page/1462/Gumanitarnie_issledovaniya_Vnutrenney_Azii_1.2013.pdf

2012. Saddling up the border: Buriad migration within the Russian-Chinese frontier space in Frontiers and Boundaries of China, edited by Bellér-Hann I. & Rajkai Z. Asiatische Forschungen: Harrassowitz, p. 223-245. Published in Chinese
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259290041_Saddling_up_the_Border_A_Buriad_Community_within_the_Russian_-_Chinese_Frontier_Space

2012. Dilemmas of the Qing migration policy in frontier Hulun-Buir: The Muslim Tarianchi and their agricultural Project [Дилеммы цинской миграционной политики в приграничном Хулунбуире на примере участи мусульман таранчи ], Gumanitarnii Vektor: Oriental Studies [Гуманитарный вектор: вотсоковедение], №2 (30): 155-164. Published in Russian
http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/dilemmy-tsinskoy-migratsionnoy-politiki-v-prigranichnom-hulun-buire-na-primere-uchasti-musulman-taranchi

2012. Ritual and Memory in the Buriad Diaspora Notion of Home in Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border, edited by F. Billé, C. Humphrey & G. Delaplace. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, pp. 137-164.
http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/139/frontier-encounters--knowledge-and-practice-at-the-russian--chinese-and-mongolian-border

2011. Mongol Language and its role in intercultural contacts between Russia and China in the 18th century [Die Rolle der mongolischen Sprache in interkulturellen Kontakten zwischen Russland und China im Verlauf des 18. Jahrhunderts] in Study of Siberia during the 18th century [Die Erforschung Sibiriens im 18. Jahrhundert: Beiträge der Deutsch-Russischen Begegnungen in den Franckeschen Stiftungen], edited by Wieland Hintzsche & Joachim Otto Habeck. Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen, pp. 188-202. Published in German
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259290340_Die_Rolle_der_mongolischen_Sprache_in_interkulturellen_Kontakten_zwischen_Russland_und_China_im_Verlauf_des_18_Jahrhunderts_The_Role_of_Mongol_Language_in_cross-cultural_contacts_between_Russia_and_Ch

2010. The Metaphorical use of avuncular terminology in Buriad diaspora relationship with Homeland and Host Society. Inner Asia 13 (2010): 201-30.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23615121?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

2010. Review of a collective volume Siberia in Focus, 2009, edited by the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute for Asian Studies. The Central Asian Survey 2(29), pp. 233-234.

2009. Life in a divided community: Buryats between Russia, China and Mongolia, in Review on Siberian studies at Max Planck Institute for Social anthropology [马克斯普朗克社会人类学 研究所西伯利亚研究 回顾], edited by Sayana Namsaraeva & Nima. Ethnic Publishing House: Beijing [民族出版社] pp. 120-155.

2008. Religion and politics in present day Buryatia [Политический аспект религиозной жизни современной Бурятии] in Religion in History and Culture of the Mongol-speaking peoples of Russia [Религия в истории и культуре монголоязычных народов России], edited by Natalia Zhukovskaya. Moscow: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, pp. 58-87. Published in Russian

2006. Russian-Mongolian border control during the Qing Dynasty [Система охраны российско-монгольской границы в период правления династии Цин] in Mongolia and its relations with Russia in historical perspectives [Историчекое развитие Монголии и монголо-российские отношения], edited by Alexander Zheleznyakov. Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, pp. 104-111. Published in Russian

Publications in Progress

Under review. Medical Tourism and Gender in Russia - China border economies: Narratives of Beautification and Ugliness in Manzhouli. The IIAS Newsletter, Issue 77 (2017).

Forthcoming 2017. Déjà vu of Distrust in the Sino - Russian Borderlands in Trust and Mistrust in the Cross-Border Economies of Northeast Asia, edited by Caroline Humphrey. Amsterdam University Press.

Forthcoming 2017. Caught between the States: Urjin Garmaev and the Conflicting Loyalties of Trans-border Buryats, History and Anthropology, Special Issue.