China Made: Asian Infrastructures and the ‘China Model’ of Development

Over the past decade, China has invested tremendously in infrastructure development, resulting in dramatic social and cultural changes in both rural and urban regions.  It has also promoted an infrastructural development model beyond its borders as part of a newly aggressive foreign policy.  China Made will explore both of these domestic and international dimension of China’s infrastructure development.  The project, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, is also meant to shift the academic focus from broader geopolitical and international relations perspectives to a finer grained analysis of the infrastructures themselves and the on-the-ground social and cultural dimensions of their construction.  China Made is a partnership between Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS).  It will involve three academic conferences – two hosted by CAS and one hosted by HKIHSS – postdoctoral and graduate research positions, and the development of online scholarly resources for project participants and the broader academic community.

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