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Dreaming the ‘Chinese dream’: Local productions of and engagements with Chinese infrastructures in Northern Laos

Simon Rowedder

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies2024https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463424000298article
ABDC C
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0.60

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Looking beyond spectacular infrastructure projects as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this article zooms in on small-scale cross-border traders in northern Laos and foregrounds their key role in enabling and sustaining the everyday workings of increasingly Chinese visions of land-linked connectivity. This study pays particular attention to the affective dimension of actively living with current and anticipating future Chinese infrastructures of physical connectivity. Playfully building on the notion of the ‘Chinese dream’, this article presents an ethnography of the emotional ambivalence of both positive and negative feelings towards Chinese visions and concrete projects of infrastructural development. This fine-grained micro-sociology of actually lived Chinese infrastructures complicates otherwise BRI-centric narratives of Chinese encroachment in Laos and the associated representation of Laos as a small and passive victim.

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@article{simon2024,
  title        = {{Dreaming the ‘Chinese dream’: Local productions of and engagements with Chinese infrastructures in Northern Laos}},
  author       = {Simon Rowedder},
  journal      = {Journal of Southeast Asian Studies},
  year         = {2024},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463424000298},
}

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0.60

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.72 × 0.4 = 0.29
M · momentum0.55 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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