Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia e-bog
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This is the first book to focus explicitly on how Chinas rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors use case studies to show the scale of Chinese influence in the region and the ways in which vario...
E-bog
302,96 DKK
Udgivet
1 december 2016
Længde
312 sider
Genrer
Social and cultural anthropology
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780295999319
This is the first book to focus explicitly on how Chinas rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors use case studies to show the scale of Chinese influence in the region and the ways in which various countries mitigate their unequal relationship with China by negotiating asymmetry, circumventing hegemony, and embracing, resisting, or manipulating the terms dictated by Chinese capital.