{"product_id":"borderland-infrastructures-alessandro-rippa-9789463725606","title":"Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcross the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, \u003ci\u003eBorderland Infrastructures\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, \u003ci\u003eBorderland Infrastructures\u003c\/i\u003e provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alessandro Rippa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9463725601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789463725606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Alessandro Rippa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48137017327871,"sku":"9789463725606","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce9c3d5f-7e94-46c3-967c-f103611fe255.jpg?v=1770165992","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/borderland-infrastructures-alessandro-rippa-9789463725606","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}