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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An excellent work on the impacts of Chinese immigration and investment in Southeast Asia after the 1990s. . . . A highly recommended book that teaches readers about new waves of Chinese immigration, socio-economic development and borderland livelihoods in Southeast Asia, including those that entail political and environmental contestations. . . . This is a high-quality edited volume, containing diverse topics, researched geographies, and varied findings. Those who are interested in learning about Chinese influences in Southeast Asia from a bottom-up perspective will certainly appreciate the reading."
-- Wen-Chin Chang * Journal of Burma Studies *
"Addresses a gap in the literature and provides empirical proof of the fluidity of ‘Chineseness.’"
-- Chih-yu Shih * Pacific Affairs *
"Southeast Asia offers diverse political and economic landscapes for mapping how and why Chinese migration and capital flows matter. . . . Each [essay] offers a compelling case study that highlights how everyday interactions and local relationships are rewriting the region at diverse scales, from the Greater Mekong Subregion to border towns. Scholars of China and Southeast Asia will welcome this diverse collection on how money and people from China are shaping the region. Recommended."
* Choice *
"This collection examines the practices, network dynamics, and multiple perceptions of the China-Southeast Asia encounter, while simultaneously placing concrete experiences within multi-layered and multi-faceted contexts, thus folding ethnographic data into structural analyses. By presenting broad patterns, examining lived experiences, and identifying a space for policy and public interventions in the China-Southeast Asia encounters, this book is truly valuable on many fronts."
-- Biao Xiang, University of Oxford * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
Table of ContentsForeword / Wang Gungwu
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: China’s “Rise” in Southeast Asia from a Bottom-Up Perspective / Pál Nyíri and Danielle Tan
Part One | Identities
1. Investors, Managers, Brokers, and Culture Workers: How Migrants from China Are Changing the Meaning of Ch-ineseness in Cambodia / Pál Nyíri
2. Multiplying Diversities: How “New” Chinese Mobilities Are Changing Singapore / Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Weiqiang Lin
3. Translocal Pious Entrepreneurialism: Hui Business and Religious Activities in Malaysia and Indonesia / Hew Wai Weng
Part Two | Livelihoods
4. Border Guanxi: Xinyimin and Transborder Trade in Northern Thailand / Aranya Siriphon
5. Ambivalent Encounters: Business and the Sex Markets at the China-Vietnam Borderland / Caroline Grillot and Juan
Part Three | Norms
6. Entangling Alliances: Elite Cooperation and Competition in the Philippines and China / Caroline S. Hau
7. Chinese Enclaves in the Golden Triangle Borderlands: An Alternative Account of State-Formation in Laos / Danielle Tan
8. “China in Burma”: A Multiscalar Political Economy Analysis / Kevin Woods
9. Water Governance in the Mekong Basin: Scalar Trade-offs, Transnational Norms, and Chinese Hydropower Investment / Oliver Hensengerth
Part Four | Aspirations
10. “Search for Knowledge as Far as China!” Indonesian Responses to the Rise of China / Johanes Herlijanto
11. Stimulating Circuits: Chinese Desires and Transnational Affective Economies in Southeast Asia / Chris Lyttleton
Glossary of Chinese Characters
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