Shifting Sands

Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands

AvXiaoxuan Lu

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices

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Beskrivning

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.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 addresses 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 changes in China’s borderlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While conventional wisdom looks to the era of Deng Xiaoping for China’s “opening,” Lu shows the integration of China’s borderlands into national and international networks from Sun Yat-sen onward. Yet, while the state has left a firm imprint on the borderlands, they were hardly created by China alone. As the Chinese case demonstrates, all borderlands are transnational, their physical and socioeconomic landscapes shaped by multidirectional flows of materials, ideas, and people.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-15
Vikt:1 107 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:University of Texas Press
ISBN:9781477327555

Utforska kategorier

Arkitektur inom Kultur
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Xiaoxuan Lu is an assistant professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. She is the coeditor of From Crisis to Crisis: Debates on Why Architecture Criticsm Matters Today, and coauthor of Interstitial Hong Kong: Exploring the Miniature Open Spaces of High-Density Urbanism and Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative.

Recensioner i media

The book offers an enduring model for architectural and planning historians interested and invested in global comparisons...[and] reflects a keen response to statebuilding and internationalization within the ever-changing national and international contexts. (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians) [This book is] a truly beautiful object...While it is true that any book attempting a study of all of China’s borders will necessarily only offer a partial view, Shifting Sands does a truly impressive job...[and] describes a complex, emerging and truly transformative geography. (China Quarterly) The insightful case-based texts and collection of materials–from archives to fieldwork on through carefully constructed cartographies–offer a novel perspective to understanding the coupling of new modes of statecraft and resource extraction. Lu’s writing is sharp and well-referenced, and it thoughtfully probes past and present policies on Chinese borderlands. (China Perspectives)

Innehållsförteckning

List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Stratigraphy of China’s Borderlands Part I. Exchanges and Flows The International Development of China Infrastructure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) Logistics: China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT) Expertise: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) Resources: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) Part II. Corridors and Concessions China and the Transborder Subregions in Asia Silk Road Urbanism: New Town Development in the China-Laos Borderlands The Xinjiang Model: Road Construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China Borderlands Shan-shui Memory: Water Commodification in the China-Korea Borderlands Part III. Settlements and Memories Characteristics of China’s Border Settlements Southwestern Borderlands Northwestern Borderlands Northeastern Borderlands Epilogue Index

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