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

"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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Nyíri, Pál (Editor), Tan, Danielle (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages): illustrations, maps ;
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-269) and index.
ISBN:9780295999319