The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Chinese Development and Investment in Asia
The recent launching of Chinas high profile Belt and Road Initiative and its founding of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have underscored Chinas rapidly growing importance as a global player in development, diplomacy, and economic governance. To date, scholarship on China abroad has focused primarily on Africa and Latin America. In comparison, Chinas investment and development assistance among its neighbors in Asia have been understudied, despite the fact that Chinas aid and overseas investment remain concentrated in Asia, the countries of which have had complex and often fraught cultural and political relationships with China for more than a millennia.
Through case studies from Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Asia, this volume provides a targeted examination of the intertwined geoeconomics and geopolitics of Chinas investment and development in Asia. It provides in-depth and grounded analyses of nationalisms and state-making projects, as well as the material effects of Chinas going out strategy on livelihoods, economies, and politics. The volume contributes to understandings of what characterizes Chinese development, and pays attention to questions of elite agency, capitalist dynamics, state sovereignty, the politics of identity, and the reconfiguration of the Chinese state.
The chapters in this book originally appeared in a special issue of Eurasian Geography and Economics.
Emily T. Yeh is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She is the author of Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development, and co-editor of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, and Rural Politics in Contemporary China.
The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Chinese Development and Investment in Asia
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Contents
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The chapters in this book were originally published in Eurasian Geography and Economics, volume 57, issue 3 (June 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
The geoeconomics and geopolitics of Chinese development and investment in Asia
Emily T. Yeh
Eurasian Geography and Economics, volume 57, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 275285
Chapter 1
Going West and Going Out: discourses, migrants, and models in Chinese development
Emily T. Yeh and Elizabeth Wharton
Eurasian Geography and Economics, volume 57, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 286315
Chapter 2
Chinese engagement in Southeast Asian energy and mineral resources: motivations and outlook
Philip Andrews-Speed, Mingda Qiu and Christopher Len
Eurasian Geography and Economics, volume 57, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 316342
Chapter 3
Resource extraction and national anxieties: Chinas economic presence in Mongolia
Sara L. Jackson and Devon Dear
Eurasian Geography and Economics, volume 57, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 343373
Chapter 4
Nationalism and anti-ethno-politics: why Chinese Development failed at Myanmars Myitsone Dam
Laur Kiik
Eurasian Geography and Economics, volume 57, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 374402
Chapter 5
A handshake across the Himalayas: Chinese investment, hydropower development, and state formation in Nepal
Galen Murton, Austin Lord and Robert Beazley
Eurasian Geography and Economics, volume 57, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 403432
Chapter 6
Flowing goods, hardening borders? Chinas commercial expansion into Kyrgyzstan re-examined
Henryk Alff
Eurasian Geography and Economics, volume 57, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 433456
Chapter 7
Politics or profits along the Silk Road: what drives Chinese farms in Tajikistan and helps them thrive?
Irna Hofman
Eurasian Geography and Economics, volume 57, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 457481
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Notes on Contributors
Henryk Alff is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Germany. His research interests include geography and anthropology of marine realms, migration, geographical development, and border and boundary studies.
Philip Andrews-Speed is a Principal Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute of the National University of Singapore. His current research focuses on the low-carbon transition in China, on the governance of energy in Asia, on energy market integration in ASEAN, and on the constraints to unconventional gas production around the world.
Robert Beazley is a PhD candidate in Natural Resources at Cornell University, USA.
Devon Dear, PhD, is a Social Studies Curriculum Designer at IXL Learning, USA.
Irna Hofman is a PhD candidate at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research interests include agrarian and social change, development sociology, and sustainable development.
Sara L. Jackson is a Lecturer at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA. Her research interests include cultural geographies of resource extraction, environmental displacement, and territory.
