Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: China’s “Rise” in Southeast Asia from a Bottom-Up Perspective 1
6. Part 1 Identities
7. 1 Investors, Managers, Brokers, and Culture Workers: How Migrants from China Are Changing the Meaning of Chineseness in Cambodia 25
8. 2 Multiplying Diversities: How “New” Chinese Mobilities Are Changing Singapore 42
9. 3 Translocal Pious Entrepreneurialism: Hui Business and Religious Activities in Malaysia and Indonesia 58
10. Part 2 Livelihoods
11. 4 Border Guanxi: Xinyimin and Transborder Trade in Northern Thailand 79
12. 5 Ambivalent Encounters: Business and the Sex Markets at the China-Vietnam Borderland 97
13. 6 Entangling Alliances: Elite Cooperation and Competition in the Philippines and China 119
14. 7 Chinese Enclaves in the Golden Triangle Borderlands: An Alternative Account of State Formation in Laos 136
15. 8 “China in Burma” A Multiscalar Political Economy Analysis 157
16. 9 Water Governance in the Mekong Basin: Scalar Trade-offs, Transnational Norms, and Chinese Hydropower Investment 174
17. Part 4 Aspirations
18. 10 “Search for Knowledge as Far as China!” Indonesian Responses to the Rise of China 195
19. 11 Stimulating Circuits: Chinese Desires and Transnational Affective Economies in Southeast Asia 214
20. Glossary 235
21. References 237
22. Contributors 271
23. INDEX 275