Chinese Global Infrastructure Paperback / softback
by Austin (The University of Hong Kong) Strange
Part of the Elements in Global China series
Paperback / softback
Description
Infrastructure is at the heart of China's presence in global development and is also central to larger debates about Chinese influence.
This Element provides a comprehensive account of major Chinese government-financed infrastructure projects in the Global South since 1949.
Using new datasets, it demonstrates that Chinese global infrastructure is distinct in terms of its historical tenacity and massive contemporary scope.
But this does not imply that contemporary Chinese global infrastructure or the Belt and Road Initiative should be studied in a vacuum.
Historical and comparative perspectives show that contemporary projects often emerge based on similar political logics to those that shaped infrastructure investment in earlier periods of Chinese history and other international contexts.
The Element then examines how infrastructure projects have created both purposeful and unintended sources of influence by serving as valuable but risky political capital for host country governments as well as the Chinese government.
This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:104 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781009088343
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:104 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/12/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009088343
