Contributors Bien Chiang received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania (1993). He is currently an associate research fellow with the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, and holds a joint appointment position of associate professor of the Graduate Institute of Anthropology, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan. He has done research and published on the subjects of social hierarchy, house, exchange, and trade among the Austronesian-speaking communities in Taiwan and Sarawak. Hsing-Chou Sung is professor and chairman, Department of Political Science, Tunghai University, Taiwan. He is also director, Urban and Regional Development Research Center, College of Social Science, Tunghai University. His research interests include Political Economy, International Relations, Research Methods, East Asian Regionalism, and Cross-Strait Relationships (China and Taiwan). Jean Chih-yin Cheng received her MA in anthropology from National Tsinghua University, Taiwan. Her research focuses on the theatrical characteristics of national cultural policy of Singapore and local community building projects in Taiwan. Romyen Kosaikanont is a lecturer in Economics at the School of Management and Deputy Rector, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai. Pinkaew Laungaramsri is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University. She is the author of Redefining Nature: Karen Ecological Knowledge and the Challenge to Modern Nature Conservation Paradigm. Nguyen Van Chinh is associate professor of Social Anthropology and deputy director, Centre for Asian and Pacific Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and his academic interests focus on the issues of labor, education, migration, and crossborder ethnic groups in the Mekong region. Yos Santasombat is professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, and senior research scholar, Thailand Research Fund. He is the author of numerous books, including Lak Chang: A Reconstruction of Tai Identity in Daikong (Canberra: Pandanus Books, ANU, 2001), Biodiversity, Local Knowledge and Sustainable Development (Chiang
258 l Contributors Mai: RCSD, 2003, 2014), Flexible Peasants: Reconceptualizing the Third World s Rural Types (Chiang Mai: RCSD, 2008), The River of Life: Changing Ecosystems of the Mekong Region (Chiang Mai: Mekong Press, 2011). Touch Siphat holds a bachelor of arts in Sociology from Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and master of arts in Sustainable Development from Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He has been working in the area of rural development in Cambodia for more than ten years and is fully experienced in capacity building for rural development workers, in working with rural community people, and in the arrangement of training courses and workshops at different levels of participants. He has also carried out research on land and livelihood issues in Cambodian rural community and impacts of Chinese Assistance in Cambodia for international workshop/conference and publication. Aranya Siriphon is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She has published books on Chinese traders in border areas and on rubber plantations in the Mekong region. Her primary research interests are border and transborder studies, media and journalism studies, and Chinese migrants and mobility in mainland Southeast Asia. Her recent research projects are The Impacts of Contemporary Chinese Mobility into Mainland Southeast Asia (2012 2014) and Political Economy of New Wave of Chinese Migrants in the Mekong Region: A Case Study of Chinese Traders along Thai-Laos Border (2011 2012). Khine Tun is senior research fellow at the Asia Development Research Institute (ADRI) of Myanmar. He received his master s degree in Economics from Kyung Hee University of Republic of Korea. After his 12-year career in the government sector, he conducted research and consultancy works in such organizations as UNDP, UNEP, FAO, Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF), and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). His latest research paper is Policy Recommendations for the Future Economic Development of Myanmar in the publication on Economic Development in Transition Period of Myanmar.
Index abeyance, 12, 119, 129 30, 133 5, 143 aid, 3, 13 14, 24, 28, 33 5, 46 7, 54, 62, 66 72, 75, 79, 90, 104, 107 9, 152, 157, 168 70, 179 80, 186, 191, 196 7, 199, 207, 222, 247 9 ASEAN, 1 2, 4, 15, 23, 33, 35, 38, 40, 42 3, 45 7, 54, 58, 77, 88, 108, 110 11, 148, 176, 180, 190 1, 198 201, 209, 221, 232 4, 237, 242 ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), 1 ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), 2 Asian financial crisis, 2, 7, 18, 23, 35 associations, 5 6, 13 14, 93 6, 100, 102 3, 148, 156 8, 161, 195, 199, 203, 206 9, 214, 241 asymmetry, 85, 88, 108 9, 120 Bank of Thailand (BoT), 7, 235 bauxite, 2, 18, 56, 66, 69, 71, 73 4 Beijing Consensus, 3 4, 231 Beijing s foreign policy, 24 bilateral trade, 10, 13, 38 9, 43, 57 8, 60 1, 78, 111, 172, 176 7, 183, 195, 197 8, 200, 210 border, 6, 13 14, 16 17, 43 5, 53 4, 56 7, 60 1, 64 5, 69, 74 7, 80, 88, 92, 118 19, 122 4, 126 7, 129 30, 135, 137, 140 4, 147 8, 150 64, 172 6, 179, 186, 191, 205, 214, 229, 232 4, 237 9, 242, 244 6, 248, 251 2 Boten Golden City, 11 Cambodia, 2, 5, 10, 13, 16, 23, 30 42, 44 7, 69, 75, 77, 93, 102, 162, 195 223, 251 charm offensive, 3, 7, 23, 50 Chinese Axis, 6, 10, 125 Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 1 Chinese diaspora, 3, 4, 6, 40, 41, 92 Chinese economic culture, 14 Chut Wutty, 16 civilizing missions, 4, 10 coercion, 12, 129, 130 1 commodifying sovereignty, 11, 117, 119, 127 8 comprehensive cooperation, 13 Confucius Institute, 14, 49, 56, 77, 98, 109, 112, 154, 163, 201, 240, 242 debts, 71, 78, 191, 197, 230 deception, 12, 129 30 Deng Xiaoping, 7 8, 26, 28, 117, 148, 169, 181, 247 deterritorialized nationalism, 4 6 discourse, 8, 10 11, 90, 117, 127, 129, 137, 152, 162 entrepreneurs, 118, 153, 155, 157, 212 ethnoscape, 15, 85 7, 101, 108 9 foreign aid, 1 3, 4, 7 8, 10, 15, 17, 24, 33 4, 47, 49, 53, 67 8, 79, 91, 179, 198, 246 50, 252 geo-economic strategies, 7 gift, 49, 104, 107, 140, 157 8, 164 going-out policy, 4, 14 Greater China, 10 Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), 15, 85, 87, 147 Guangxi, 15, 32, 55, 61, 64, 87 8, 92, 95, 97 8, 162, 232 4, 239, 251 guanxi, 14, 148, 154 7, 161, 164, 173
260 l Index harmonious world, 2, 9, 34, 47 Haw, 90, 92, 96, 101 3, 109, 112 13 Hu Jintao, 9, 56, 197, 199 Huaqiao, 157 Hun Sen, 13, 196 7, 199, 206, 208, 213 14, 217 investment, 1 11, 13 15, 17 18, 26, 28 9, 31 3, 35, 37 40, 44 6, 53 5, 62 7, 69 71, 75, 77 9, 85, 87, 97, 103 4, 109, 118 19, 123 4, 127 8, 148 52, 155 6, 168, 172 3, 176, 179 82, 184 91, 195 200, 208, 210, 212 14, 220, 223, 231 3, 237, 242, 245 7, 250 2 Jiang Zemin, 55 6, 179, 197 Khmer Rouge, 69, 204 6, 220 Khmer-Chinese association, 206, 208 Kings Romans, 11 12, 122 6, 131, 138, 143 knowledge economy, 9 Koh Kong, 2, 10, 13, 16, 213, 215, 219 20 Kuomintang, 147, 158, 161, 168 Lancang Jiang, 29 land concession, 10, 99, 104 5, 118, 182 3, 196, 211, 215 16, 220, 222 land grabs, 9 Lao PDR, 7, 8, 11, 15, 39, 85, 87, 90 1, 93, 96, 98, 101 4, 108, 111 13, 118 19, 123, 131, 133, 142 3, 228, 243 52 late capitalism, 8 local responses, 215 Lon Nol, 204, 213 Mandalay, 41, 137, 172 5 Mao Zedong, 26 market society, 9 Mekong region, 1 2, 4 7, 10, 13 18, 23 4, 72, 80, 89 migrants, 2 7, 13 15, 24, 41 4, 46 7, 75 6, 101, 105, 112, 143, 147 53, 155 8, 161 2, 164 6, 170 6, 192, 195, 198, 200, 202, 209, 210 modernity, 1, 4, 8, 10 13, 15 16, 109, 121, 127, 129, 141 3, 164 multilateralism, 18 Muslim Chinese, 92 Myanmar, 2, 3, 5 6, 11, 17 18, 23, 30 3, 35 47, 87, 110, 123, 126 7, 137 9, 147 8, 151 3, 158 62, 164, 167 76, 178 92, 234, 251 Myintsone hydropower dam, 18 nationalism, 3 6, 10, 27, 56 nation-building, 3, 4, 6 neoliberalism, 8 10, 119 22, 125, 137, 140 1, 228, 243 new wave, 170 1, 173 Nong That Laung, 15 Okhna, 206, 214 old wave, 170 1, 173 One China policy, 197, 199, 222 Overland Chinese, 2, 92, 126, 161 Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, 5 Pol Pot, 201, 205 politics of currency, 7 Renminbi, 7, 60, 227, 230 resource extraction, 3, 18, 44, 173 riparian states, 23, 38 RMB internationalization, 7 8, 227 9, 231 5, 238, 240 6, 249 50, 252 soft extraterritoriality, 11, 118 soft power, 10, 27 9, 34, 49, 55, 80, 152, 163 Sombath Somphone, 16 Southeast Asia, 1, 2, 4, 6, 13, 23 4, 27 9, 31, 34, 40 50, 54, 64 5, 68, 72, 80, 92, 94, 97, 102, 111 12, 125, 147 9, 151 2, 161 4, 201 space, 9 10, 12, 15, 118, 122, 124 7, 134 5, 137, 241 space of exception, 9 Special Economic Zones, 10, 85, 97, 110, 117 19, 121, 125, 127, 142, 151, 214 subjects, 8 10, 99, 119, 121 2, 133, 137, 141, 154, 159 Swap Arrangement, 7 8, 235, 242, 249 Taiwan, 6, 10, 24, 27, 64 5, 91, 93, 95, 101, 111, 147 8, 154, 157 61, 163, 196, 203, 232 Tatmadaw, 17
Index l 261 territorialization, 2, 7, 15 16, 119, 181 2 Thailand, 6, 7 8, 13, 16, 17, 23, 30, 32 3, 35 42, 44 7, 87, 91 2, 95 6, 102 3, 112, 123 4, 129 30, 143, 147 8, 150 6, 158 64, 171, 180, 186, 201, 205, 209, 220, 228 9, 233, 235 43, 245 6, 249 52 Thein Sein, 18, 189 Tianxia, 1 trade, 1 2, 7 8, 10 11, 13 15, 17 18, 23 4, 29 33, 34 9, 42 3, 46, 48, 50, 53, 56 61, 65 8, 71, 75 80, 85, 87 8, 110 12, 120, 123, 130, 147, 149 51, 153 4, 156, 161 4, 168, 170, 172, 175 8, 181, 183, 186, 189, 191, 195 8, 200, 204 5, 207 8, 210, 228 9, 231 5, 237 40, 242 5, 250 2 transnationalism, 64 transnationalization of Chinese identity, 3, 10 Union Development Group, 13, 215, 220 1 vassalage, 86, 89 90, 108 9 Vietnam, 10, 14, 18, 23 4, 27, 30, 32, 34 40, 42 3, 45 6, 53 80, 89 90, 92 3, 95, 102 3, 141, 151, 162, 180, 190, 207, 209, 210, 212, 234, 242, 245, 248, 251 2 Washington Consensus, 4, 228, 231, 235, 250 Wen Jiabao, 24, 35, 43, 48, 197 Xi Jinping, 56, 77, 187, 189, 235, 238 9, 245 Xinhua, 38, 80, 95, 109, 209, 235, 249 Xinyimin, 147 50, 152 6, 161 Yuan, 7, 126, 130, 137, 147, 171, 180 1, 228, 231, 235, 238, 240 3, 246 Yunnan Bridgehead Strategy, 87 Yunnanese, 6, 92, 103, 112, 126, 147, 154, 156 62, 164, 174 Zhao Wei, 11 12, 105, 122 6, 128 9, 144 Zhu Rongji, 197 zoning technologies, 9 10, 125