Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia (eBook)

P�l Ny�ri is professor of global history from an anthropological perspective at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He is the author of Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority; coauthor of Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits; and coeditor of Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region. Danielle Tan is research associate at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO-ENS Lyon), France, and at the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC, Bangkok). The contributors are Aranya Siriphon, Caroline Grillot, Caroline S. Hau, Oliver Hensengerth, Johanes Herlijanto, Hew Wai Weng, Weiqiang Lin, Chris Lyttleton, Kevin Woods, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and Juan Zhang.

Foreword / Wang GungwuList of Abbreviations Introduction: China�s �Rise� in Southeast Asia from a Bottom-Up Perspective / P�l Ny�ri and Danielle TanPart One | Identities1. Investors, Managers, Brokers, and Culture Workers: How Migrants from China Are Changing the Meaning of Ch-ineseness in Cambodia / P�l Ny�ri2. Multiplying Diversities: How �New� Chinese Mobilities Are Changing Singapore / Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Weiqiang Lin3. Translocal Pious Entrepreneurialism: Hui Business and Religious Activities in Malaysia and Indonesia / Hew Wai WengPart Two | Livelihoods4. Border Guanxi: Xinyimin and Transborder Trade in Northern Thailand / Aranya Siriphon5. Ambivalent Encounters: Business and the Sex Markets at the China-Vietnam Borderland / Caroline Grillot and JuanPart Three | Norms6. Entangling Alliances: Elite Cooperation and Competition in the Philippines and China / Caroline S. Hau7. Chinese Enclaves in the Golden Triangle Borderlands: An Alternative Account of State-Formation in Laos / Danielle Tan8. �China in Burma�: A Multiscalar Political Economy Analysis / Kevin Woods9. Water Governance in the Mekong Basin: Scalar Trade-offs, Transnational Norms, and Chinese Hydropower Investment / Oliver HensengerthPart Four | Aspirations10. �Search for Knowledge as Far as China!� Indonesian Responses to the Rise of China / Johanes Herlijanto11. Stimulating Circuits: Chinese Desires and Transnational Affective Economies in Southeast Asia / Chris LyttletonGlossary of Chinese CharactersReferencesContributorsIndex