The Chinese province of Yunnan has been undergoing a dynamic process of repositioning, from a Southwestern periphery of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) to a bridgehead between China and its neighbors in Southeast and South Asia. This repositioning has found expression in ideas about the province's geopolitical positioning, policy frameworks, involvement in transborder institutions, infrastructure development and commerce.
The author, Tim Summers, traces this process and its implications, demonstrating the extent of provincial agency in reform-era China and the growing global importance of "'south-south" economic and commercial interactions. The introductory chapters overview China's changing global relationships, summarize Yunnan's history and key elements in its regional and global interactions and outline the development since the 1980s of ideas concerning Yunnan's geopolitical positioning. The next three chapters consider three main areas of political economy in turn: transnational institutions, infrastructure and transport development and regional and bilateral ties between Yunnan and Southeast and South Asia.
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"Yunnan is one of China's most strategically important regions, occupying a critical area where it serves as a bridgehead between the rest of the country and the diverse and complicated economies and polities of south and southeast Asia. Tim Summers has intimate experience of working in the region and has produced an excellent, readable and comprehensive study, locating this ethnically rich province in its historic and regional context, but then using Yunnan to illustrate the complex interdependencies of provinces in modern China and the ways in which they relate to the central government, to other provinces, and to the wider world. An important and rewarding new study." --Kerry Brown, University of Sydney
"This is a succinct, clearly-written and well-presented discussion of how a province is able to articulate its own goals while working within a national system where many of the macro-economic policy levers like interest rates, growth targets and tax raising powers are still in the hands of the central government." --Asian Review of Books
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Utilizes Yunnan's case to demonstrate the extent of provincial agency in global interactions in reform-era China, and provides new insights into both China's relationships with its Asian.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| About the author |
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| Yunnan timeline |
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| Yunnan place names in Chinese |
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1 Introduction: why Yunnan? |
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Previous studies on Yunnan |
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A provincial case study of China's political and economic relations |
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2 China in a changing world |
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Western China and the global economy |
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China and its Asian neighbours |
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Provincial agency in China's global interactions |
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3 Yunnan's history in regional perspective |
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From Dian kingdom to Mongol conquest |
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From Ming integration to `inward rebalancing' in the Qing |
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Late Qing decline and European incursions |
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Reform, revolution and the war period in Yunnan |
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4 Repositioning Yunnan: ideas and policy |
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Early ideas of `opening up' in Yunnan |
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Developing ideas and policy |
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The `great international transit route' and CAFTA |
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5 Yunnan and regional institutions |
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Early regional engagement: Greater Mekong Subregion |
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New dynamics in the region(s) - CAFTA and a revitalised GMS |
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Guangxi and regional institutions |
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Yunnan and domestic regionalism |
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6 Infrastructure development |
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The early 1990s: limited transport infrastructure |
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Transport infrastructure in 2001 |
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Further developments: 2006 and beyond |
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Energy security and infrastructure development |
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Challenges: politics and international relations |
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7 From border trade to `going out' |
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`Going out': outward investment from Yunnan |
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Domestic trade and Investment |
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Provincial agency and `competitive internationalisation' |
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China, Asia and global political economy |
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| References |
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| Index |
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Tim Summers writes on the politics, economy, and international relations of contemporary China. He is a Senior Consulting Fellow with Chatham House in London, teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and advises corporates and investors on China. Tim holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from CUHK, and an MA from the University of Cambridge. He was British Consul-General in Chongqing from 2004 to 2007, when he traveled extensively in southwest China, including in Yunnan.
