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How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
List of contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction. Stratigraphy of China’s Borderlands
- Part I. Exchanges and Flows
- The International Development of China
- Infrastructure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO)
- Logistics: China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT)
- Expertise: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH)
- Resources: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO)
- Part II. Corridors and Concessions
- China and the Transborder Subregions in Asia
- Silk Road Urbanism: New Town Development in the China-Laos Borderlands
- The Xinjiang Model: Road Construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China Borderlands
- Shan-shui Memory: Water Commodification in the China-Korea Borderlands
- Part III. Settlements and Memories
- Characteristics of China’s Border Settlements
- Southwestern Borderlands
- Northwestern Borderlands
- Northeastern Borderlands
- Epilogue
- Index
About the author
Xiaoxuan Lu is an assistant professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. She is the coeditor of From Crisis to Crisis: Debates on Why Architecture Criticsm Matters Today, and coauthor of Interstitial Hong Kong: Exploring the Miniature Open Spaces of High-Density Urbanism and Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative.
Summary
How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
