| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Friendship empire: how a Chinese entrepreneur failed to make friends in Mongolia -- Whose walls? A Chinese mining enclave in the Gobi Desert -- Roads that separate : how a Chinese oil company failed to detach itself from its Mongolian surroundings -- Strategies of unseeing : the possible superimposition of a "Chinatown" on the Catembe peninsula -- Enclaves and envelopes : cutting and connecting relations in Sino-Mozambican workplaces -- Alterity in the interior : tree scouts, spirits, and Chinese loggers in the forests of Northern Mozambique |
| Summary |
"A comparative anthropological study of Chinese globalization, this book explores the emergence of a global polity and the implications of collaborative endeavors and failures through ethnographic fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and resource-extraction projects in Mongolia and Mozambique"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Local consequences of China's global expansion, Infrastructure projects with Chinese involvement, Sub-Saharan Africa, inner and central asia, Mozambique, Mongolia, neo-colonialism and Sinophobia in the Global South |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2022) |
| Subject |
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Mongolia
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Globalization -- Social aspects -- Mozambique
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Globalization -- Case studies
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Globalization -- China
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Economic development projects -- Social aspects
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Economic development projects -- Political aspects
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HISTORY / Asia / China
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Economic development projects -- Political aspects
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Economic development projects -- Social aspects
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Globalization
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Globalization -- Social aspects
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China
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Mongolia
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Mozambique
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nielsen, Morten, 1971- author.
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Pedersen, Morten Axel, 1969- author.
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| LC no. |
2021033854 |
| ISBN |
9781501759826 |
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1501759825 |
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1501759817 |
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9781501759819 |
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