books
Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky (eds.), Infrastructures and the Remaking of Asia. University of Hawai’i Press, 2022
Darren Byler, Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Maculinity in a Chinese City. Duke University Press, 2021.
Alessandro Rippa, Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China. Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
The Social Life of Chinese Infrastructures in Southeast Asia
A Special Section of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (2024), from the Third China Made workshop, guest edited by Darren Byler and Tim Oakes
Byler, D. and T. Oakes. 2024. Guest Editorial: The social life of Chinese infrastructures in Southeast Asia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. Open Access.
Harlan, T. and J. Lu. 2024. The cooperation-infrastructure nexus: Translating the ‘China Model’ into Laos. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. Open Access.
Green, N. and R. Yi. 2023. Chinese infrastructure as spatial fix? A political ecology of development finance and irrigation in Cambodia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
Turner, S., B.N. Nguyen, and M. Hykes. 2023. A train reaction: the infrastructural politics and mobility injustices accompanying Hanoi’s new urban railway Line 2A. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. Open Access.
Chinese Infrastructure: Techno-politics, Materialities, Legacies
A Special Section of The China Quarterly 255 (2023), from the Second China Made workshop, guest edited by Alessandro Rippa and Tim Oakes
Rippa, A. and T. Oakes. 2023. Infrastructural thinking in China: a research agenda. The China Quarterly 255, 547-559. Open Access
Liebman, A. 2023. High-metabolism Infrastructure and the Scrap Industry in Urban China. The China Quarterly 255, 560-574.
Oakes, T. 2023. The national new area as an infrastructure space: urbanization and the new regime of circulation in China. The China Quarterly 255, 575-590.
Harlan, T. 2023. Low-carbon frontier: renewable energy and the new resource boom in Western China. The China Quarterly 255, 591-610.
Yeh, E.T. 2023. The Making of Natural Infrastructure in China’s Era of Ecological Civilization. The China Quarterly 255, 611-627.
Byler, D. 2023. The camp fix: infrastructural power and the “re-education labour regime” in Turkic Muslim industrial parks in north-west China. The China Quarterly 255, 628-643.
Chen, J. 2023. From Cold-War geopolitics to the crisis of global capitalism: the history of Chinese wireless network infrastructures (1987-2020). The China Quarterly 255, 644-662.
Hirsh, M. 2023. The transnational origins of China’s aviation infrastructure. The China Quarterly 255, 663-678.
Infrastructural thinking in a Chinese register
A collection of essays in Made in China from the First China Made workshop, guest edited by Tim Oakes and Alessandro Rippa, and featuring work by Jonathan Bach, Andrew Grant, Tong Lam, Alessandro Rippa, Hallam Stevens, Dorothy Tang, and Amy Zhang
keywords for infrastructure and media
tongdao 通道 passage, passageway, channel
anzhi 安置 suitable resettlement
articles, chapters, reports
Wittekind, C. 2024. “Take our land”: fronts, fraud, and fake farmers in a city-to-come. Cultural Anthropology 39(1): 91-117.
Cartier, C. 2024. Socialist urbanism and cultural infrastructure facilities in China: cities of the Pearl River Delta and the Guangzhou cultural infrastructure facilities plan, 2003–07. Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1995.
Mason, O., J. Lally, T. Harris, T. Oakes, and A. Rippa. 2024. Book review forum: reading Alessandro Rippa’s Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China. Political Geography 115: 103217.
Oakes, T. 2024. Global China and infrastructure power: the technopolitics of the ‘China Model’ of development. Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs 10 (July): 84-93.
Aung, G.R. 2024. Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241243163. Paper originally presented at the Third China Made workshop, May 2021.
Saiyarod, P. 2023. Retrofitting the Mekong: Community-based environmental responses to Chinese transnational infrastructure in a Thai border town. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 54(3): 480 – 501. Paper originally presented at the Third China Made workshop, May 2021.
Oakes, T. 2023. Commentary: Infrastructure power, circulation and suspension. Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 16(2): 297-303.
Joniak-Lüthi, A. and A. Rippa. 2022. China in Central Asia: fact-checking and myth-busting. Novostan (December 2).
Oakes, T., J. Clendenning, J. DiCarlo, M. Erie, M. Hirsh, A. Joniak-Lüthi, H. Karrar, V. La Mela, J. Lu, T. Mostowlansky, G. Murton, H. Ng, R. Norum, N. Plachta, B. Reichhardt, A. Rippa, J. Sarma, E. Sulek, D. Tang, Z. Urmanbetova and T. White. 2022. China’s global development model: Looking beyond the Belt and Road Initiative. Fribourg, Munich, and Boulder. Available at: chinadevelopmentmodel.roadworkasia.com.
Joniak-Lüthi, A., A. Rippa, J. Clendenning, J. DiCarlo, M. Erie, M. Hirsh, H. Karrar, V. La Mela, J. Lu, T. Mostowlansky, G. Murton, H. Ng, R. Norum, T. Oakes, N. Plachta, B. Reichhardt, J. Sarma, E. Sulek, D. Tang, Z. Urmanbetova and T. White. 2022. Demystifying the Belt and Road Initiative. Fribourg, Munich and Boulder. Available at: BRI.roadworkasia.com.
Rippa, A. 2022. From guest traders to live streamers: hospitality and technology in Yunnan’s gemstone market. Social Analysis 66(1): 44-63.
La Mela, V. 2021. Khorgos: the making of an equal twin on the Sino-Kazakh border. In E. Mikhailova & J. Garrard (eds.), Twin Cities Across Five Continents: Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 197-208.
Oakes, T. 2021. The Belt & Road as method: geopolitics, technopolitics and power through an infrastructure lens. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 62(3): 281-285.
Byler, D. 2020. The digital enclosure of Turkic Muslims. Society & Space Magazine (December 7th).
Oakes, T. 2020. Not urban yet, no longer rural. In M. Bonino, F. Carota, F. Governa & S. Pellecchia (eds.), China Goes Urban: The City to Come. Milan: Skira, pp. 198-209.
Oakes, T. 2020. Infrastructures of permanence and deserted architecture in China. Roadsides 4: 68-75.
Rippa, A. 2020. Mapping the margins of China’s global ambitions: economic corridors, Silk Roads, and the end of proximity in the borderlands. Eurasian Geography and Economics 61(1): 55-76.
Rest, M. & A. Rippa. 2019. Road animism: reflections on the life of infrastructures. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 9(2): 373-389.
Rippa, A. 2019. Infrastructure of Desire: Rubble, Development, and Salvage Capitalism in Rural China. Made in China Journal, July 23.
Oakes, T. 2019. China’s urban ideology: new towns, creation cities, and contested landscapes of memory. Eurasian Geography and Economics 60(4): 400-421.
briefs
July 2022. Fourth ChinaMade Workshop: From China Model to Global China; 第四届中国制造研讨会：从中国模式到全球中国
June 2022. China’s Nuclear Belt & Road; 中国核能的一带一路
May 2022. Infrastructures of Urban Life Yet to Come; 尚未到来的城市生活基础设施
March 2021. Environing Infrastructure: A Project Outline; 环境的基础设施:项目大纲
February 2021. Yangon’s “New City”; 仰光的“新城市”
January 2021. The BRI as an Exercise in Infrastructural Thinking; 一带一路是基础设施思维中的一项练习
December 2020. Exporting the Chinese Instant City? A Lefebvrian New Town in Central Peru；中国的即时城市出口？秘鲁中部的勒费弗尔的新城
October 2020. Infrastructural Power, Hong Kong, and Global China; 基础设施的功率,香港,和全球中国
August 2020. New Grounds: Infrastructuring the Central Plains of China; 新领域：基础设施建设中原
March 2020. Second China Made Workshop: China’s Domestic Infrastructures; 第二次中国制造研讨会：中国国内基础设施
April 2019. Keywords for Infrastructure and Media: Social Lives and Material Effects” Workshop, Denver, March 24-5, 2019
January 2019. Invisible Infrastructure: a project outline; 隐形的基础设施：项目概述
November 2018. First China Made Workshop: Conceiving Infrastructure in a Chinese Register; 首次中国制造研讨会：构想中国框架内的基础设施
reviews
Oakes, T. 2022. Review of Ramondetti, Leonardo. 2022. The Enriched Field: Urbanising the Central Plains of China(Birkhauser).
Loizeaux, E. 2022. Review of Byler, Darren. 2022. Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City. (Duke University Press).
Bachrach, D. 2021. Review of Köll, Elisabeth. 2019. Railroads and the Transformation of China. (Harvard University Press).
Oakes, T. 2021. Review of Hiebert, Murray. 2020. Under Beijing’s Shadow: Southeast Asia’s China Challenge. (Center for Strategic and International Studies).
Byler, D. 2021. Review of David Lampton, Selina Ho and Cheng Chwee Kuik. 2020. Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia. (University of California Press).
Oakes, T. 2021. Review of Wang Xiaowei. 2020. Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Originals x Logic).
Oakes, T. 2020. Review of Emmerson, Donald K. (ed.). 2020. The Deer and the Dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21st Century. (Stanford: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center).
Aung, G. 2020. Review of Rippa, Alessandro. 2020. Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China. (Amsterdam University Press).
newsletters
Winter 2021: Featuring China Made related writing from Darren Byler, Lin Zhu and Tim Oakes.
Summer 2020: Featuring China Made related writing of Leonardo Ramondetti, Dorothy Tang, and Carolyn Cartier.
china made in the news
November 2018: First China Made Workshop: Conceiving Infrastructure in a Chinese Register. Association for Asian Studies #Asia Now blog.
china made on video
Presentations, panel discussions, podcasts, and interviews with scholars discussing how they work with infrastructure in their research projects, and why infrastructure is important to their work
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