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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Zusammenfassung Drawing on case studies from Southeast, South and Central Asia, this book undertakes the first focused examination of China ‘abroad’, presenting in-depth and grounded analyses of competing nationalisms and state-making projects. The chapters in this article originally appeared in a special issue of Eurasian Geography and Economics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
