1st Edition
The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Chinese Development and Investment in Asia
Introduction: The geoeconomics and geopolitics of Chinese development and investment in Asia Emily T. Yeh 1. Going West and Going Out: discourses, migrants, and models in Chinese development Emily T. Yeh and Elizabeth Wharton 2. Chinese engagement in Southeast Asian energy and mineral resources: motivations and outlook Philip Andrews-Speed, Mingda Qiu and Christopher Len 3. Resource extraction and national anxieties: China’s economic presence in Mongolia Sara L. Jackson and Devon Dear 4. Nationalism and anti-ethno-politics: why ‘Chinese Development’ failed at Myanmar’s Myitsone Dam Laur Kiik 5. “A handshake across the Himalayas:” Chinese investment, hydropower development, and state formation in Nepal Galen Murton, Austin Lord and Robert Beazley 6. Flowing goods, hardening borders? China’s commercial expansion into Kyrgyzstan re-examined Henryk Alff 7. Politics or profits along the “Silk Road”: what drives Chinese farms in Tajikistan and helps them thrive? Irna Hofman
Biography
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.
