Chinese global infrastructure / Austin Strange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strange, Austin M., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in global China, 2632-7341.

Cambridge elements. Elements in global China, 2632-7341

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infrastructure (Economics)--China.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Investments, Chinese--Developing countries.

Investments, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023).

ISBN:

9781009092951

1009092952

9781009093286

1009093282

9781009090902

1009090909

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access