David M. Lampton, Selina Ho, Cheng-Chwee Kuik

Rivers of Iron

Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

"Rivers of Iron provides insights on a central issue of our time: building railways and other modes of transport. It goes beyond building connections. It is about stirring growth and sharing prosperity. The authors' vivid account of the construction of railways between individual Southeast Asian countries and China has indeed captured these and more."--Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia "This book deserves to become an instant classic. Its approach is to consider everything significantly connected to its subject, from the making of Chinese foreign policy to the desires and doubts of each of its prospective partners, all the while keeping the rails in focus. The authors provide a definitive study of a major component of China's Belt and Road Initiative and a credible picture of the ongoing transformation of the economic geography of East Asia."--Brantly Womack, Professor of Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia "A highly compelling read. This book is thoroughly researched, well constructed, and well argued, but more importantly, it is a balanced and impartial account of China's railway expansion in Southeast Asia, providing much-needed fact-based evidence for current debates on China's global commercial diplomacy."--Agatha Kratz, Associate Director, Rhodium Group

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780520372993
• ISBN-10: 0520372999
• Artikelnr.: 58819514

Autorenporträt

David M. Lampton is Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Research Scholar and Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at Stanford University's Asia-Pacific Research Center. He has served as president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations and was the inaugural winner of the Scalapino Prize in 2010. He is the author of Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. Selina Ho is Assistant Professor and Chair (Master in International Affairs Program) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She is also nonresident Senior Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. She is the author of Thirsty Cities: Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India. Cheng-Chwee Kuik is Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Asian Studies, the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies at the National University of Malaysia, and a nonresident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, SAIS Johns Hopkins. He received the 2009 Michael Leifer Memorial Prize, presented by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, for his essay "The Essence of Hedging."