Introduction: mapping multiple Chinas on the development landscape -- Transpacific assemblages: tracing development encounters over space and time -- Chinese diaspora: migration and the making of Central American modernity -- Taiwan: diplomatic, economic, and cultural associations with the 'Other China' -- Infrastructure: laying the groundwork for sovereignty and national identity -- Trade: brokering economic exchange across markets and cultures -- Corruption: hunting tigers and chopping chorizo across the Pacific -- Conclusion: locating development futures.
Summary
"This book offers an ethnographic study of the nature and stakes of contemporary Chinese development in Central America. It illuminates a long history of transpacific connections and the role of multiple Chinas-the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Chinese diasporic communities-in shaping the forms and expectations for regional development"-- Provided by publisher.
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