Chinese Question in Central Asia

Domestic Order, Social Change, and the Chinese Factor

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvMarlene Laruelle,Sebastien Peyrouse,Dr. Marlene Laruelle,Dr. Sebastien Peyrouse,Marlene Laurelle

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Since the start of the 2000s, the People's Republic of China has become an increasingly important player on the Central Asian scene, both diplomatically and strategically, in particular through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. At the economic level, China has positioned itself among the largest traders and investors in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. This growing Chinese presence has drastically challenged the traditional influence of Russia and weakened that of the United States and Europe. The purpose of this book is to go beyond a geopolitical analysis by articulating an external influential factor, namely China, and changes in the domestic order in neighboring Central Asia. It engages in an analysis of the contemporary transformations that are occurring within the systems and societies of Central Asia. China has become a subject of public debate, academic and expert knowledge. New cultural mediators, petty traders, lobby groups, migrants, and diasporas, have also emerged. China's rise to power has worked as a catalyst compound of the anxieties and phobias associated with the major social transformations that have occurred in Central Asia over the last two decades. Sinophobia and Sinophilia are now closely associated.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-10-29
Mått138 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt482 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagC Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
ISBN9781849041799

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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.'