<p>In the late 1970s and '80s, socialist countries in Asia began<br>reopening their borders to overseas scholars. Today, a growing number<br>of social scientists are embarking on fieldwork in China, Vietnam, and<br>Laos. <i>Red Stamps and Gold Stars</i> brings together all the<br>messiness, compromise, and ethical dilemmas that underscore fieldwork<br>in upland socialist Asia and elsewhere in the Global South. These<br>challenges can range from how to gain research access to politically<br>sensitive border regions, to helping informants-turned-friends access<br>appropriate health care, to reflections on how to best represent ethnic<br>minority voices.</p><br><br>The human geographers and social anthropologists contributing to this<br>volume are actively engaged in research with ethnic minorities in<br>upland socialist Asia. Accomplished geographers, anthropologists, and<br>ethnohistorians, they foreground the importance of questioning<br>one's subjective gaze and of debating representations of<br>"the other." Reflecting on the realities of fieldwork in<br>socialist regimes and analyzing their positionality and subjectivity in<br>the field, the contributors debate a range of ethical quandaries and<br>the rewards that can be gained from critical reflection. Together,<br>these unique contributions will advance the study of the practice of<br>international fieldwork.<p><p><b>Sarah Turner</b> is an associate professor in the<br>Department of Geography at McGill University.</p><br><br><p><b>Contributors:</b> Christine Bonnin, Candice Cornet,<br>Magnus Fiskesjö, Stéphane Gros, Stevan Harrell, Isabelle<br>Henrion-Dourcy, Li Xingxing, Karen McAllister, Jean Michaud, Pierre<br>Petit, Oscar Salemink, Jennifer Sowerwine, and Janet C. Sturgeon</p>