{"product_id":"shifting-sands-9781477327555","title":"Shifting Sands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, \u003ci\u003eShifting Sands \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses the full scope and importance of these regions, illustrating their transformation from imperial backwaters to hotbeds of resource exploitation and human development in the age of neoliberal globalization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Xiaoxuan Lu brings to bear an original combination of archival research, fieldwork, cartography, and landscape analysis, broadening our understanding of the political economy and cultural changes in China’s borderlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While conventional wisdom looks to the era of Deng Xiaoping \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. Stratigraphy of China’s Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I. Exchanges and Flows \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The International Development of China \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Infrastructure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Logistics: China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Expertise: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Resources: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II. Corridors and Concessions \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e China and the Transborder Subregions in Asia \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Silk Road Urbanism: New Town Development in the China-Laos Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Xinjiang Model: Road Construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Shan-shui Memory: Water Commodification in the China-Korea Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part III. Settlements and Memories \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Characteristics of China’s Border Settlements \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Southwestern Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Northwestern Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Northeastern Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408964034903,"sku":"9781477327555","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477327555.jpg?v=1730504885","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shifting-sands-9781477327555","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}