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One Belt One Road
Chinese Power Meets the World
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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Ideal for students and professionals in political science, international relations, and economics, as well as readers interested in contemporary Chinese geopolitics and global infrastructure development.
One Belt One Road argues that the largest global infrastructure development program in history is not the centralized and systematic project that many assume. Rather, Eyck Freymann suggests, the campaign aims to build the cult of Chinese President Xi Jinping while exporting an ancient model of patronage and tribute.
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From Tanzania to Malaysia, Russia to Iran, author Eyck Freymann takes readers inside China's One Belt One Road, the largest global infrastructure development programme in history.
In this authoritative and accessible book, Freymann argues that OBOR is not the centralised and systematic investment policy that many commentators have made it out to be. Rather, it is a largely aspirational and sometimes ad hoc campaign to export an ancient Chinese model of patronage and tribute. Inside China, propaganda depicts President Xi Jinping restoring the nation's lost imperial glory. Overseas, China uses massive investments to cultivate relationships with willing politicians and political parties. Freymann finds that this strategy is working. Even in countries where OBOR megaprojects fail, political leaders are still excited about the potential benefits of continued partnership with China.
One Belt One Road is a guide for understanding China's burgeoning commercial empire. Drawing on primary documents in five languages, interviews with many senior officials, and on-the-ground case studies from the salt flats of Sri Lanka to the shipyards of Greece, Freymann tells the monumental story of the world's latest encounter with Chinese power.
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Experts praise Freymann's work for combining extensive research with rigorous analysis, offering a provocative and clarifying perspective on China's OBOR strategy. Reviews commend its accessibility and recommend it for students and policymakers interested in global power dynamics and Chinese foreign relations. Noted endorsements highlight the book's challenge to Western narratives and its policy relevance.
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ISBN: 9780674247963
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 November 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Illustration: 21 color photos, 1 color illus., 12 color maps, 3 tables
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 360
About the Author
Eyck Freymann is a DPhil candidate in China Studies at the University of Oxford. His work has been published or cited in the New York Times, The Economist, and The Atlantic.
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