Transpacific Developments : : The Politics of Multiple Chinas in Central America / / Monica DeHart.

Transpacific Developments intervenes in the debates of China's growing presence in Latin America with original ethnographic research that challenges conventional thinking about who and what constitutes Chinese development in Central America, how it is perceived locally, and what it portends for...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.) :; 8 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Mapping Multiple Chinas on the Development Landscape
  • Part I. WHO OR WHAT IS CHINA IN CENTRAL AMERICA?
  • 1. Transpacific Assemblages: Tracing Development Encounters over Space and Time
  • 2. Chinese Diasporic Communities: Migration and the Making of Central American Modernity
  • 3. Taiwan: Diplomatic, Economic, and Cultural Associations with the “Other China”
  • Part II. MATERIALIZING TRANSPACIFIC DEVELOPMENT
  • 4. Infrastructure: Laying the Groundwork for Sovereignty and National Identity
  • 5. Trade: Brokering Economic Exchange across Markets and Cultures
  • 6. Corruption: Hunting Tigers and Chopping Chorizo across the Pacific
  • Conclusion: Locating Development Futures
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index