Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse are both Senior Research Fellows with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. They have spent five years in Central Asia and have published numerous articles and policy papers on the growing Chinese presence in Central Asia.

• I. China as a Globalized Actor for the Central Asian States 1. Diplomatic Relations, Border Treaties, and the Unresolved Water Issue 2. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Successes and Challenges 3. The Logics of Chinese Economic and Trade Involvement 4. Myths and Realities of the Chinese Migrations in Central Asia II. Domestic Order and Social Change: the Chinese Factor 5. China as Political Object: the Chinese Question as Part of Public Debate 6. China as Object of Academic Knowledge: Structuring National Sinology 7. Geo-political Sinophilia, Economic Sinophobia: a Double Narrative 8. Cultural Apprehensions: Historical Legacies and Demographic Phobias 9. The Generation Gap: Central Asian Youth and the Fashion for China and learning Chinese

'The findings of the two authors seem to me vital for any serious discussion of China's future geopolitical role in Asia.' --Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books 'In contemporary Central Asia, China looms large in regional political, economic, and cultural landscapes. The multi-faceted extent of this influence today is expertly analysed and presented by Laruelle and Peyrouse in this powerfully compelling and thought-provoking book.'

Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse are both Senior Research Fellows with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. They have spent five years in Central Asia and have published numerous articles and policy papers on the growing Chinese presence in Central Asia.

• I. China as a Globalized Actor for the Central Asian States 1. Diplomatic Relations, Border Treaties, and the Unresolved Water Issue 2. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Successes and Challenges 3. The Logics of Chinese Economic and Trade Involvement 4. Myths and Realities of the Chinese Migrations in Central Asia II. Domestic Order and Social Change: the Chinese Factor 5. China as Political Object: the Chinese Question as Part of Public Debate 6. China as Object of Academic Knowledge: Structuring National Sinology 7. Geo-political Sinophilia, Economic Sinophobia: a Double Narrative 8. Cultural Apprehensions: Historical Legacies and Demographic Phobias 9. The Generation Gap: Central Asian Youth and the Fashion for China and learning Chinese

'The findings of the two authors seem to me vital for any serious discussion of China's future geopolitical role in Asia.' --Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books 'In contemporary Central Asia, China looms large in regional political, economic, and cultural landscapes. The multi-faceted extent of this influence today is expertly analysed and presented by Laruelle and Peyrouse in this powerfully compelling and thought-provoking book.'

Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse are both Senior Research Fellows with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. They have spent five years in Central Asia and have published numerous articles and policy papers on the growing Chinese presence in Central Asia.

• I. China as a Globalized Actor for the Central Asian States 1. Diplomatic Relations, Border Treaties, and the Unresolved Water Issue 2. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Successes and Challenges 3. The Logics of Chinese Economic and Trade Involvement 4. Myths and Realities of the Chinese Migrations in Central Asia II. Domestic Order and Social Change: the Chinese Factor 5. China as Political Object: the Chinese Question as Part of Public Debate 6. China as Object of Academic Knowledge: Structuring National Sinology 7. Geo-political Sinophilia, Economic Sinophobia: a Double Narrative 8. Cultural Apprehensions: Historical Legacies and Demographic Phobias 9. The Generation Gap: Central Asian Youth and the Fashion for China and learning Chinese

'The findings of the two authors seem to me vital for any serious discussion of China's future geopolitical role in Asia.' --Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books 'In contemporary Central Asia, China looms large in regional political, economic, and cultural landscapes. The multi-faceted extent of this influence today is expertly analysed and presented by Laruelle and Peyrouse in this powerfully compelling and thought-provoking book.'