Parham Steven
Parham Steven - China's Borderlands The Faultline Of Central Asia - Hardcover
Parham Steven - China's Borderlands The Faultline Of Central Asia - Hardcover
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Description: This region - which marks the meeting of China and post - Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily economically and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live there beyond a romanticised Silk Road sense of fraternity. In fact relations between the people of this region are tense and border violence is escalating - even as the identity and nationality of the people on the ground shifts to meet their new geopolitical realities. As Steven Parham shows many of the world's Soviet borders have proved to be deeply unstable and in the end impermanent. Meanwhile the looming presence of Modern China and Russia who are funneling money and military resources into the region - partly to fight what they see as a growing Islamic activism - are adding fuel to the fire. This lyrical intelligent book functions as part travelogue part sociological exploration and is based on a unique body of research - five months trekking through the checkpoints of the border regions. As China continues to grow and become more assertive as it has been recently in Africa and in the South China Seas - as well as in Xinjiang - China's borderlands have become a battleground between the Soviet past and the Chinese future.
Title: China's Borderlands The Faultline Of Central Asia
Author(s): Parham Steven
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781784535063
Pages: 306 Pages, 2 Maps
Publication Date: 3/30/2017
Category: Geopolitics
Description: This region - which marks the meeting of China and post - Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily economically and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live there beyond a romanticised Silk Road sense of fraternity. In fact relations between the people of this region are tense and border violence is escalating - even as the identity and nationality of the people on the ground shifts to meet their new geopolitical realities. As Steven Parham shows many of the world's Soviet borders have proved to be deeply unstable and in the end impermanent. Meanwhile the looming presence of Modern China and Russia who are funneling money and military resources into the region - partly to fight what they see as a growing Islamic activism - are adding fuel to the fire. This lyrical intelligent book functions as part travelogue part sociological exploration and is based on a unique body of research - five months trekking through the checkpoints of the border regions. As China continues to grow and become more assertive as it has been recently in Africa and in the South China Seas - as well as in Xinjiang - China's borderlands have become a battleground between the Soviet past and the Chinese future.
Title: China's Borderlands The Faultline Of Central Asia
Author(s): Parham Steven
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781784535063
Pages: 306 Pages, 2 Maps
Publication Date: 3/30/2017
Category: Geopolitics
