Shifting sands : landscape, memory, and commodities in China's contemporary borderlands

Xiaoxuan Lu

"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, Shifting Sands takes in 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. 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 change of China's borderlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."

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Year of publication:	2023 ; First edition
Authors:	Lu, Xiaoxuan
Publisher:	Austin : University of Texas Press
Subject:	Grenzregion \| Border region \| Internationaler Güterverkehr \| International freight transport \| Landnutzung \| Land use \| Infrastrukturpolitik \| Infrastructure policy \| China \| Grenzgebiet \| Landschaft \| Gedächtnis \| Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Description of contents:	"How China s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [dietmardreier.de]

Extent:	X, 311 Seiten Illustrationen
Series:	Lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes index Stratigraphy of China's borderlands -- Exchanges and flows. The international development of China -- Infrastructure : China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) -- Logistics : China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT) -- Expertise and labor : China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) -- Commodity and resource : China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) -- Corridors and concessions. China and the transborder subregions in Asia -- Silk road urbanism : new town development in the China-Laos borderland -- The Xinjiang model : road construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China borderland -- Shan-shui memory : mineral water extraction in the China-Korea borderland -- Part III. Settlements and memories. Characteristics of China's border settlements -- Southwestern borderlands : No. 01-13 -- Northwestern borderlands : No. 14-23 -- Northeastern borderlands : No. 24-36.
ISBN:	978-1-4773-2755-5 ; 1-4773-2755-X ; 978-1-4773-2756-2
Classification:	China
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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