In China's Backyard: Policies and Politics of Chinese Resource Investments in Southeast Asia - Softcover

Jason Morris-Jung (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9814786098 ISBN 13: 9789814786096

Publisher: ISEAS Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

In this fascinating multi-disciplinary and multi-sited volume, the authors challenge reductionist and oversimplifying approaches to understanding China's engagement with Southeast Asia. Productively viewing these interactions through a 'resource lens', the editor has transcended disciplinary and area studies divides in order to assemble a dynamic and diverse group of scholars with extensive experience across Southeast Asia and in China, all while bringing together perspectives from resource economics, policy analysis, international relations, human geography, political ecology, history, sociology and anthropology. The result is an important collection that not only offers empirically detailed studies of Chinese energy and resource investments in Southeast Asia, but which attends to the complex and often ambivalent ways in which such investments have become both a source of anxiety and aspiration for different stakeholders in the region. It is essential reading for scholars seeking to understand the diverse contours of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia" ― Erik Harms, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

About this title

About the Author

Jason Morris-Jung is Senior Lecturer in Social Research at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).

Edition details

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814786098
• ISBN 13: 9789814786096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255