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Borderland infrastructures : trade, development, and control in western China / Alessandro Rippa
(Asian borderlands)
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press |
| Publisher | Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE |
| Year | 2020 |
| Year | 0000 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Contents | Connections Bridgehead Dependency Heritage Control (Il)licitness |
| Notes | Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, 'Borderland infrastructures' addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, 'Borderland infrastructures' provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries Open Access Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-278) and index Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE Description based on print version record |
| Authors | *Rippa, Alessandro, Project Muse, |
| Subjects | LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books LCSH:Borderlands -- China. -- Economic aspects All Subject Search LCSH:Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- China All Subject Search LCSH:Infrastructure (Economics) -- China -- Yunnan Sheng All Subject Search LCSH:Infrastructure (Economics) -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu All Subject Search BISACSH:POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics FREE:Infrastructure (Economics) FREE:Intergovernmental fiscal relations FREE:China FREE:China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu All Subject Search FREE:China -- Yunnan Sheng All Subject Search |
| Classification | DC23:338.951 |
| ID | ED00001564 |
| ISBN | 9789048543564 |