{"product_id":"shifting-sands-landscape-memory-and-commodities-in-chinas-contemporary-borderlands-hardback-9781477327555","title":"Shifting Sands; Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands (Hardback) 9781477327555","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShifting Sands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLandscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eXiaoxuan Lu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477327555, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 65 color and 49 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e3.8 x 19.4 x 2.5 cm, 1.107 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe book offers an enduring model for architectural and planning historians interested and invested in global comparisons...[and] reflects a keen response to statebuilding and internationalization within the ever-changing national and international contexts.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians) \u003cdiv\u003e[This book is] a truly beautiful object...While it is true that any book attempting a study of all of China’s borders will necessarily only offer a partial view, \u003ci\u003eShifting Sands\u003c\/i\u003e does a truly impressive job...[and] describes a complex, emerging and truly transformative geography.\u003c\/div\u003e (China Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003eThe insightful case-based texts and collection of materials–from archives to fieldwork on through carefully constructed cartographies–offer a novel perspective to understanding the coupling of new modes of statecraft and resource extraction. Lu’s writing is sharp and well-referenced, and it thoughtfully probes past and present policies on Chinese borderlands.\u003c\/div\u003e (China Perspectives)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eShifting Sands \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. Stratigraphy of China’\u003cbr\u003es Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I. Exchanges and Flows \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The International Development of China \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Infrastructure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Logistics: China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Expertise: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Resources: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II. Corridors and Concessions \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e China and the Transborder Subregions in Asia \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Silk Road Urbanism: New Town Development in the China-Laos Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Xinjiang Model: Road Construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Shan-shui Memory: Water Commodification in the China-Korea Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part III. Settlements and Memories \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Characteristics of China’\u003cbr\u003es Border Settlements \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Southwestern Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Northwestern Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Northeastern Borderlands \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685665861912,"sku":"9781477327555","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shifting-sands-landscape-memory-and-commodities-in-chinas-contemporary-borderlands-hardback-9781477327555","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}