Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands - Couverture rigide

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Lu, Xiaoxuan

 
9781477327555: Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands
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ISBN 10 : 147732755X ISBN 13 : 9781477327555
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2023

Synopsis

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, Shifting Sands addresses the full scope and importance of these regions, illustrating their transformation from imperial backwaters to hotbeds of resource exploitation and human development in the age of neoliberal globalization.

Xiaoxuan Lu brings to bear an original combination of archival research, fieldwork, cartography, and landscape analysis, broadening our understanding of the political economy and cultural changes in China’s borderlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While conventional wisdom looks to the era of Deng Xiaoping for China’s “opening,” Lu shows the integration of China’s borderlands into national and international networks from Sun Yat-sen onward. Yet, while the state has left a firm imprint on the borderlands, they were hardly created by China alone. As the Chinese case demonstrates, all borderlands are transnational, their physical and socioeconomic landscapes shaped by multidirectional flows of materials, ideas, and people.

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À propos de l?auteur

Xiaoxuan Lu is an assistant professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. She is the coeditor of From Crisis to Crisis: Debates on Why Architecture Criticsm Matters Today, and coauthor of Interstitial Hong Kong: Exploring the Miniature Open Spaces of High-Density Urbanism and Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative.

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Éditeur
University of Texas Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
147732755X
ISBN 13 
9781477327555
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
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