Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region

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This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China's 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. Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia Contents Foreword Abbreviations Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia Introduction Identities 1 Investors, Managers, Brokers, and Culture Workers 2 Multiplying Diversities 3 Translocal Pious Entrepreneurialism Livelihoods 4 Border 5 Ambivalent Encounters Norms 6 Entangling Alliances 7 Chinese Enclaves in the Golden Triangle Borderlands 8 “China in Burma” 9 Water Governance in the Mekong Basin Aspirations 10 “Search for Knowledge as Far as China!” 11 Stimulating Circuits Glossary References Contributors INDEX